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by the Episcopal Church as Episcopal and Roman Catholic being validly ordained is cele- brant, asking how the service Dialogue on the Eucharist therefore could be accepted as valid. publication. •* Episcopal and Roman Cath- ment of the Gospel" for Bap- Anglican members of the dis- and olic participants in a third theo- tism and Holy Communion, the cussion group, it was stated, logical dialogue session in difference was found- to be "agreed to disagree on this reuse Providence, R. I. issued a call basically one of terminology, point." for for increased prayers for Chris- since Episcopalians believe in Fr. Tavard's paper, which was tian unity and announced that the sacramental nature of holy not made available at the press their discussions had revealed orders. conference but which is to be required "the possibility of an unpre- "Both Churches believe that printed later, described the cedented measure of agreement men are set apart for the minis- function of the priest and the on the character of the Eucha- try of deacon, priest, and bishop congregation in the Eucharist

Permission rist ..." by an act of God in the Church and discussed the practical and While it was clearly pointed through prayer and the laying psychological function of the out that many questions remain on of hands by the bishop. It priest in the world of God. DFMS.

/ about the Eucharist — the sub- was agreed that ordination gives In his paper, Wolf stated that ject to be pursued at the joint man grace and authority for a it is "no longer possible to use group's next meeting in the life-long ministry." traditional manuals of theology Church Milwaukee, Wis., area in May— At the same time it was noted to compile a paper on 'The Min- the discussions showed basic that the discussions brought out ister of the Eucharist.' " agreement on the need for a "the fact that some Episcopali- "The revolution in historical Episcopal special minister or priest as ans receive Holy Communion knowledge and the developing the celebrant. from non-Episcopal ministers at ecumenical orientation of the of The three-day closed session, ecumenical gatherings . . . caus- Churches," Wolf said, "have it was stated at a concluding ing Roman Catholics to ask how rendered obsolete much that press conference, opened with this could be done without prior

Archives once seemed very clear and un- general agreement that while doctrinal agreement on ministry complicated. people offer their service of the and sacraments." 2020. "Catholics have recognized Eucharist according to their Basic discussion papers on increasingly the wide diversities position as persons of God, a the role of the priest as cele- of ministry in the New Testa- special minister or priest should ment and are less likely to read

Copyright brant of the Eucharist were be present. presented by William J. Wolf, back later developments into the A joint public statement professor of theology at Epis- earliest period. issued by the group said that copal Theological School, Cam- "Protestants have shown a participants were "agreed on bridge, Mass., and Father new openness in recognizing the relationship between holy George Tavard of the Center for within the New Testament the orders and the priestly ministry, Advanced Studies at Middle- seeds of later development and according to papers presented town, Mass. in realizing that the ministry and discussed . . . In the discussions, it was cannot be frozen into a sup- "In official Roman Catholic reported, Fr. Tavard ques- posedly determinable New terminology ordination is called tioned Episcopalian participation Testament pattern. There re- a sacrament. While Anglican- in Holy Communion services mains the task of trying to ism reserves the word "sacra- where a minister not recognized achieve ever more accurate OCTOBER 27, 1966 Three scientific-historical studies in Morehouse, president of the ecumenical library and research which the investigators hold House of Deputies; and Prof. center; Prof. Thomas P. Neill their theologies and ideologies George A. Shipmanof the of St. Louis, and Msgr. William to a minimum." Graduate School of Public Af- W. Baum, executive secretary of In the public statement, the fairs, Seattle, Wash. the U.S. bishops' commission for group stressed that representa- Catholic participants were: ecumenical affairs. tives of both Churches reported Fr. Tavard; Bishop Charles During the meeting, the Epis- on their talks with other Chur- H. Helmsing of Kansas City-St. copal members were observers ches and that "the entire meet- Joseph, Mo.; Bishop Cyril J. at a concelebrated Catholic mass ing was conducted within the Vogel of Salina, Kans.; Fr. offered by the Catholic bishops context of the whole ecumenical Bernard J. Cooke, S. J., of Mar- and priests, and the Catholic movement." quette University; Fr. Lawr- participants observed a holy "Obedience to Christ's prayer ence B. Guillot, executive secre- communion service offered by for the unity of his Church," it tary of the Kansas City (Mo.) the Anglican clergymen. was stated, "was seen as an urgent necessity for fulfilling publication. the Church's mission in today's Church Leaders Kick up Rumpus and world. "Expectancy was based on the Over Withdrawal of Funds reuse steady progress toward agree- for ment on fundamental issues * Sargent Shriver, director with a newsman, had denounced and a sense that God was lead- of the Office of Economic Op- those in the protest as using ing Christians toward unity in portunity, will meet with of- "character assassin tactics," required faith and charity. Even the ficials of the Child Development nonetheless gave the clergymen thorny issues which still divide Group of Mississippi (CDGM) some hope that a reorganized the two Churches in theology to review reasons why OEO cut CDGM might yet be eligible to off funds for that group to con- receive a grant to continue part

Permission and practice did not overcome the conviction that God's will tinue its vast Head Start pro- of its program. for the unity of mankind in gram. CDGM's future is not final,

DFMS. This was learned after a he indicated. But a public af-

/ him would prevail." Spokesmen pointed out that meeting in Shriver's office with fairs official for OEO said the talks were conducted in a six clergymen representing the "there would have to be a clean Church harmonious and frank atmos- United Church of Christ, the sweep at the top: before con- phere. According to Bishop Episcopal Church and the sideration could be given." John S. H i g g i n s of Rhode United Presbyterian Church. A statement, signed by about

Episcopal Island, the group was "ready to Some of the same clergymen 75 clergymen on Oct. 15, ac- the say what we thought about each were among about 150 religious cused Shriver of "deliberate of other and their views" as a leaders who had demonstrated misrepresentation" of CDGM. result of having had two previ- in front of OEO headquarters This was similar to charges ous sessions. claiming that Shriver buckled by the Citizens' Crusade Against Archives Each group now will make a under to political pressures Poverty (CCAP), which has report on the session to their brought by Mississippi legisla- numerous Church organizations 2020. parent bodies. tors, (see Witness, 10/20). among its components. Richard In addition to the Catholic and The meeting with the board Boone, its executive director, Episcopal participants, W. Jack- of directors of CDGM was sched- said OEO has not proven its Copyright son Jarmon, a minister of the uled for the regional office of accusations against the CDGM. Christian Churches was present OEO in Atlanta. "Assuming that they were as an observer for the National Even though the churchmen so," Boone said, "they did not Council of Churches. were reportedly encouraged over even afford the CDGM a chance Episcopal participants in the their two-hour conference with for a hearing to answer the talks were: Shriver, OEO was still expected charges." Dr. Wolf; Bishop Higgins; to stick by a ruling handed Robert W. Spike, the civil Peter Day; Bishop Donald H. V. down by its legal department rights theologian who was which maintains that OEO can- found slain in Columbus, Ohio, Hallock of Milwaukee; Bishop not legally designate funds for on Oct. 17, served as co-chair- Edward R. Welles of West the group under its present man with A. Philip Randolph, a Missouri; Arthur A. Vogel, pro- structure. union official and civil rights fessor at Nashotah; Clifford P. Shriver, who, in an interview leader, on the 12-man board of

FOOT THE WITNESS inquiry that went to Miss, to Police were not able immedi- rate, radically truthful theology, investigate charges against the ately to determine a cause for and in writings and in actions CDGM. the slaying. It was reported which genuinely correspond to Messages expressing shock that neither robbery nor civil our convictions . . . and sadness at the brutal slay- rights motives apparently were • By courageously ridding ing of Dr. Spike were issued by involved. ourselves of feudal titles, ges- churchmen and religious groups The young clergyman be- tures and customs that the associated with the 42-year-old came a national figure, primarily world has long since found to United Church of Christ minis- in church circles, during the be dishonest . . . ter. period of concentrated civil • By ridding ourselves of Spike was found beaten to rights activity. He was the first pomp and luxury in liturgy and death, a deep wound in his director of the National Coun- life, in dress and ornament . . . head, beside a bed in the United cil's race commission and in that • By not so much urging the Christian Center at Ohio State capacity played key roles in secular press to be truthful, but University. He had taken part organizing religious participa- that we ourselves abstain from in dedication ceremonies at the tion in demonstrations and triumphal reports of our work new structure on Oct. 16 and making known to legislators the and from one-sided statistics, publication. was found slain in its guest will of religious groups in be- (by reporting) our failures and and room the following noon. half of racial justice measures. (allowing) our opponents to ex- press their views completely . . . reuse • By providing more free- for Marks of Coming Great Church dom in the church in all areas, especially in theology by getting rid of the imprimatur in theo- required Outlined by Hans Kueng logical literature, freedom for * "The Church could win by theoretical and abstract af- parents to raise and educate back through truthfulness some firmations." their children according to their Permission of the credibility she has lost in Theology in general has consciences, by arriving at a the eyes of the world through neglected the virtue of truth- regulation for the hundreds of thousands of mixed marriages

DFMS. dishonesty over the centuries." fulness, Fr. Kueng said. In the / context of the Catholic Church, which will exclude all violations Father Hans Kueng, Roman of conscience . . . Catholic theologian, gave this the greatest cardinal virtue has

Church been prudence, not truthfulness. • By giving an honest, sen- advice in the first of three lec- sible answer to the difficult tures at Stanford University. "How much does it take," he questions of marriage morality, The Catholic Church must asked, "before a Catholic theo- especially regarding birth con- Episcopal take a truthful stance in every logian openly admits that any trol, an answer which we can the theological area because the particular fallible pronounce- be certain is of divine origin and of world expects it of the Church, ment, like an encyclical, or a not merely the product of some he said. papal address, or a decree of the system of morality or ecclesias- holy office, was a mistake?" tical document . . .

Archives "The world is not so much interested in theoretical theo- One tries to find a way out by • Providing for a just repre- means of clever distinctions.

2020. logical expressions in relation to sentation of all national Chur- the essence of the world, its "When the error is admitted ches in the central administra- science and culture," said Fr. it is too often too late for the tion of the Church at Rome. Kueng, dean of the Catholic world," Fr. Kueng said, citing Copyright "If the Church wants to con- theological faculty at the Uni- examples of Galileo, the inter- vince the world that it is — versity of Tuebingen, West pretation of the biblical account beyond every doubt — truthful, Germany. "The modern world of the creation and the fall, the honorable, sincere, decent, and knows it is progressing without necessity of a papal state, and therefore credible," Fr. Kueng being told so by the Church." the decrees of the biblical com- said, "it is not enough that the "The Church is not expected mission in this century as some Church thinks, expresses, de- to proclaim truths," he con- of the outstanding examples. crees and promulgates truth, tinued, "but to be true; to be He listed some ways in which but that it brings these truths engaged in the world without the Church can fight hard for to a genuine realization, that it compromise; to express its own theological truth: engages itself unconditionally, truthfulness by concrete and • By preaching the gospel unmistakably, clearly and un- practical decisions rather than without compromise, in accu- reservedly for truth." OCTOBER 27, 1966 Chadwick, head of the com- Relations with State Studied mission, is 50. Bishop members are the Bishop of Leicester, As Preparation for Union Ronald Williams, who is 59, and the Bishop of Chester, Gerald * Relations between Church of unity and the urgency felt in Ellison, who is 56. and state in the context of other Churches would provide With five other members greater unity among the Chur- just that spur between doing being only in their 30's, the ches are to be considered by a something and doing nothing. average age of the new commis- new Church of England com- Not only in the Church of sion works out at 46, making it mission. England's own relations to the one of the youngest commis- The commission was ap- Methodists, with whom union sions ever appointed by Angli- pointed by the Archbishops of negotiations are currently going cans. Canterbury and York in line on, were the members of the Nine of the 17 members of with a decision of the Church Assembly obliged to consider the commission are lay people, Assembly last November. the relations of Church and including the three women — publication. Latest of a number of com- state, he said. There were the Kathleen Jones, professor of

and missions which have studied Presbyterians and the Congre- social administration in the Uni- church-state relations during gationalists engaged hopefully versity of York, Lady Ogilvie,

reuse the past century, it is headed in plans for a united Church lately principal of St. Anne's

for by Prof. Owen Chadwick, master among themselves, side by side College, Oxford, and Miss of Selwyn College, Cambridge, with discussions between the Valerie Pitt, a college lecturer and professor of ecclesiastical Church of England and the and active member of the required history in the University, and Presbyterians, he noted. Church House of Laity. has 16 other members, including On the status of the Church two bishops and three women. of England as the established ARCHDEACON STEVENSON Its terms of reference are to national Church of England, Dr. CONSECRATION Permission "make recommendations as to Ramsey also said it would be * Dean T. Stevenson, for- the modifications in the consti- idle to expect that the historic merly archdeacon of Bethlehem, DFMS. / tutional relationship between Free Church attitude of dislike was consecrated bishop of Church and state which are of the Establishment was ended. Harrisburg on October 13. The desirable and practicable" and, The Archbishop of York also

Church service was held in the Scottish in its deliberations, to "take spoke in the same debate, say- Rite Cathedral in order to take account of the current and fu- ing the new commission was care of the 1,300 attending. ture steps to promote greater needed because of an increasing Presiding Bishop Hines was Episcopal unity between the Churches." move of opinion towards the the consecrator with Bishop the On the main term of reference, autonomy of the Church of Eng- Warnecke and Bishop Heistand of concerning the constitutional land and of a widening desire the co-consecrators. The latter relationship between Church for unity, retired as bishop of Harrisburg and state, the functions of the "If union is achieved with the

Archives on October 1 after 23 years as new commission may not appear Methodists in a very few years diocesan. much different than those of its inevitably the relation of the 2020. Bishop Warnecke was the numerous predecessors. But the whole episcopate with the preacher and the sermon will extension of these terms to Crown and Parliament will be a be found on page eleven. cover steps towards unity matter of grave importance," he Copyright among the Churches gives the said. new commission an entirely new THEODORE F. JONES In deciding that the new com- HAS NEW JOB function. mission should be appointed, the The Archbishop of Canter- Assembly also agreed to adjourn • The Rev. Theodore F. bury pinpointed the important further consideration of legisla- Jones, former businessman who relevance of this when he ad- tion concerning the vexed and studied for orders and was or- dressed the Assembly a year controversial matter of Crown dained in 1962, became execu- ago on the decision to appoint appointments. This refers to tive secretary of the diocese of the commission. He told mem- the centuries-old procedure Pennsylvania this month. bers that although the ecumeni- whereby leading Church of Eng- He succeeds the Rev. Alfred cal context was not the whole land dignitaries are appointed Vail who held the job for five context of what they were by the Sovereign on the advice years but has now become rec- doing, nevertheless the urgency of the Prime Minister. tor of the Redeemer, Cincinnati. Six THB WITHBSS EDITORIAL ought to include more of those who dared to All Christians work in the arena of social conflict. The organ- izers of the labor movement probably did more Are Saints for social justice than all the sermons preached. ALL SAINTS DAY is an important festival in Those who were forced to get their hands dirty the life of the Chuch as it points once again to in politics to achieve social goals are more to our belief in the communion of saints, a dogma be emulated than those who stood apart to keep affirmed whenever the Apostle's Creed is said their hands from getting soiled. Let us include and presupposed whenever we pray for the them in our list of saints, if such a list we dead as we do at every celebration of the Holy have. Of course they were not perfect but no Eucharist and whenever the burial office is saint ever was. read. Since all Christians are saints though de- publication. In the first few centuries of the Church's life ficient in achieving perfect sainthood, let us and the occasion was celebrated on Friday of Easter rejoice that those who die can continue to grow week, or on May first which always comes with- in the knowledge and love of God. The power reuse in the Easter season or Ascensiontide, or on that brought victory over death brings victory for May thirteenth for reasons of which we are not to those who try to serve their Lord, both in sure, or on the Sunday after Pentecost. It is this world and the next.

required likely that the date of November first was bor- rowed from the Druids for this was the festival THE GOSPEL FOR ALL SAINTS' DAY of Saman, the Lord of Death. Just as December SEEING the crowds, he went up on the mountain, twenty-fifth was borrowed from the pagans and

Permission and when he sat down his disciples came to him. redeemed as the birthday of Jesus, so too the And he opened his mouth and taught them, Day of Death on November first was made into saying: DFMS.

/ a day of comfort and joy although some of the "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is vestiges of the earlier celebration remain on the kingdom of heaven. Halloween. From Ireland and England to France

Church "Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall and Germany the date trickled down until we be comforted. find Pope Gregory IV in the ninth century urg- "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit ing its acceptance everywhere. From that time

Episcopal the earth. on the celebration on other days began to dis-

the "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for appear rapidly. We can be thankful that a of righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. half-year after Easter we are reminded once "Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain again of the resurrection faith that those who mercy. Archives die in the Lord are now in his heavenly keeping. "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall The Bible does not make a distinction between see God. 2020. saints and other souls in the Christian com- "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall munity. Anyone who has been baptized as a be called sons of God. Christian and strives to serve his Lord is pro- "Blessed are those who are persecuted for Copyright perly labelled a saint, for saint and Christian righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of are interchangeable. However, we have intro- heaven. duced a qualitative difference, if not one of kind, "Blessed are you when men revile you and between ordinary Christians who are trying to persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against think and do what is right and those quite you falsely on my account. exceptional souls who became martyrs for their Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great belief or forsook the world of constant care for in heaven, for so men persecuted the prophets a celibate life of quiet contemplation. However, who were before you." as Ferovious in Shaw's Androcles and the Lion made quite clear, it is often easier to die for your faith than to try to practice it alive. Revised Standard Version of the New Testament, com- If we must make a catalogue of saints we pared with the most ancient authorities, 1946.

OCTOBEB 27, 1966 S«M)t WORLD PEACE AND WORLD COMMUNION By John M. Krumm Rector of Church of the Ascension, New York WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT PEACE, SPECIFICALLY AND IN PARTICULAR

WHEN POPE PAUL asks Christians to think are Christians in Asia or Africa or South Amer- and pray and work for peace in this month of ica who look at the Christians of western Europe October the reaction of most people, I am afraid, and of North America across a barrier of pover- is to nod a pious assent, and then promptly for- ty and under-development that is staggering get about it. The difficulty is that in general and humanly impassable. A young Nigerian

publication. everyone agrees that peace is a good thing and delegate at the Geneva meeting of the World war is a bad thing. Someone has said, "even Council of Churches this summer called atten- and generals talk like pacifists" these days, and no tion to the facts of the world's economic situa-

reuse one except possibly Adolf Hitler has recently tion. One-third of the people of the world in

for come out foursquare for war. But if all we are the nations of the affluent northern hemisphere saying is that we are against war, it is like control 75% of the world's wealth and 85% of Calvin Coolidge's preacher being against sin. its technology. The young Nigerian who made required No one expects anything else, but how does it that bitter and devastating observation is a help us decide questions of international policy Christian, and he too is praying at Christ's and make up our minds how our nation should table for justice and peace among men as we

Permission react to any one of the half a dozen urgent are, but how differently he looks at the world. questions before us today about our role in world affairs? Our Lord's list of beatitudes in- One Body in One Spirit DFMS. / cludes a promise of blessing for "peace-makers" —but not necessarily for those who are nothing THE EPISTLE for Trinity seventeen speaks about the unity which Christians experience

Church more than "peace-talkers." The advice of the psalmist is to "seek peace and pursue it" — not despite sharp differences of outlook and opinion just to "dream about peace and wish for it." and background: "one body in one Spirit." That epistle was written either by St. Paul or by Episcopal The question is what can we do about peace— some one closely associated with him, and I the specifically and in particular. And the sugges- cannot believe he or anyone closely connected of tion of this article is that we can answer that with him would underestimate the divisions question best by thinking about it in the con- within the first century Christian Church. There

Archives text of our membership in the world-wide fel- had been some pretty bitter words between St. lowship of the Christian Church. We worship Paul and St. Peter, for example, about integra- 2020. in conscious recognition of our unity with other tion of Jewish and Gentile Christians at the Christians all around the world who like us are Lord's Table, and St. Paul had on other occasions gathering around the table of the Lord and re- been obliged to say very harsh things about the Copyright membering his great love for us and being fed members of some of his churches. These words by his life and energized with his spirit. Does about "one Body in one Spirit" were not spoken this make any difference in the way we approach lightly by some one who thought the Christian the question of world peace? This article is my Church was a tea party of Pollyannas. What way of saying that I think it does. the author meant was that underneath all the The first thing I would ask you to think differences within the early Christian Church about is that our world-wide communion in there were some great, unifying realities. There Christ celebrates a human unity which is deeper was the fact that all of them recognized that than any of the differences that divide men one God had created them in his likeness — and from one another. I do not want to seem too that consequently they were fundamentally all sentimental about this. The differences between seeking to express the same kind of life—free- Christians are enormous and formidable. There dom, responsibility, compassion. They all knew

Eight THE WITNESS that Christ had died for all men everywhere, north and south, but it is a sign of hope that that they all might be one in mutuality and there exists within the world right now a world- loving service. They all wanted more than any- wide community of people who are trying to thing else to repay the great debt they owed to learn to think the way Christ thinks about men God by letting Christ's own love express itself and their needs. They may differ in their con- in their lives more and more. "His service is clusions, but they agree in the way they ought the golden cord, close binding all mankind." to ask the questions. Learning from Each Other The Way Peace Comes ANOTHER WAY our world communion in ONE OF THE PRE-REQUISITES of peace is Christ may help us find ways to world peace has that enough people care more about the welfare already been hinted at in what we have been cf mankind as a whole than they do about the saying — and that is, that we must listen advantages of their own nation. That is the seriously and openly to what our fellow Chris- way peace comes in a family or in a national tians tell us of their problems and needs and community. Some one in the family has to care how they view our actions in world affairs. We publication. more about the family as a whole than he or belong together in Christ, but we also need each

and she cares about getting his or her own way. other to help us think and act effectively and Some statesman in the nation has to care more strategically for Christ's sake. If Christianity reuse about the country as a whole than he cares is right about the depth and pervasiveness of for about his own political party or his own sec- sin in the human heart, then we cannot expect tional advantage or special interest. The Chris- that many people are going to be able fully to tian community all over the world represents appreciate and understand the outlook of some required people who in principle at least care more about one else. The effort to imagine, for example, Christ and his will for men and women than how a Negro feels who has lived all his life in they do about their own happiness and welfare apartheid in South Africa or in a segregated Permission or about the rights and prestige of their re- community in America's south or in the ghetto spective nations. of a big northern city is an almost impossible

DFMS. I listened a few days ago to the report of an achievement for a white man's imagination. / Episcopal college chaplain who had been a dele- gate this summer to a meeting in Moscow of a So God calls us together in a universal fellow- Church so-called "Christian Peace Conference." These ship to hear from the lips of another what we were delegates, most of them, from Communist- could scarcely imagine for ourselves. One of dominated countries, although there were also the reasons the Church in South Africa has been Episcopal delegates from uncommitted nations like India a leader in the resistance to apartheid is that the and Nigeria. All of them were Christians. Since it makes this kind of speaking and listening of he was an unusually intelligent young man, this across the barriers of race and class totally im- college chaplain was not without some doubts possible. How can there be one body and one spirit if the members of that body and the

Archives about the unbiassed character of the meeting, but he said that one thing he noticed was that recipients of that spirit are never allowed to meet together or to share and communicate per- 2020. both Communist-oriented Christians and non- communist oriented Christians sat rather loose sonally and intimately with one another? Apar- to their official political ideologies. theid can never be acceptable as a principle of

Copyright Tne American Christian and the Russian government to the Christian Church, for it Christian both had a kind of impatience with represents a deep and fundamental heresy about the slogans and rhetoric of their respective the unity of men in Christ. countries. They spoke and though more in- That unity seems more plausible and realistic stinctively about the needs and welfare and than it did when it was first promulgated. When dignity of human beings than they did of the theologians of the first Christian centuries "fascist imperialism" or "godless materialism." described the Christian Church as a unified Now that did not mean in Moscow this summer world-wide fellowship of men and women of ail that the Christian Peace Conference dissolved races and all nations they must have realized all the differences between east and west and that the facts were somewhat against them. It the perhaps even greater differences between took many painful weeks of traveling for a OCTOBER 27, 1966 Nine Christian churchman in the middle ages to get not an easy moment for anyone It has hap- from London to Rome and to get a hearing for pened, however, again and again in the case of the problems and issues facing the Christians of nations in our modern world. One of the con- England. And by the time he got there and got spicuous examples is Great Britain, once mistress back again, many times the shape of the prob- of the seas, the arbiter of the peace of Europe, lem had changed radically. the dominant influence in Asia and Africa, now Follow our Investments reduced to the status of a second class power, TODAY the facts have caught up with the far behind Russia and the United States. Christian faith, and Christians more than most Events indicate, however, that Russia and the people ought to see the folly of isolationism and United States in turn are going to have to yield supernationalism. It is sometimes said, for pre-eminence to the newly emerging nations of example, in connection with the United Nations Asia and Africa — what is sometimes called concern with apartheid in South Africa that it "the Third World." Numerically they are un- is an interference in the internal affairs of a deniably important, and they will insist more sovereign country and ought to be prohibited.

publication. and more on their rightful place in the councils But the facts are that the economy of South of the nations. It will take a great deal of the and Africa is not an internal matter at all, but de- humility Jesus talked about for a nation like pends at many points on the investments of ours to take a lower place and listen respectfully reuse many important industries and banks in the

for and seriously to what these peoples and nations United States for example. So some Christians are saying. are urging that our Christian witness follow our Pattern of World Peace required investments, and that banks and investment companies here that are so largely involved in PERHAPS WE CAN find the grace to do this South Africa make their influence felt in modi- if we recall St. Paul's analogy of the body of fying the practice of apartheid in the operations Christ — the analogy of the human body itself. Permission over which they exercise control. Our Church's Not all parts of the body, he said, have equal National Executive Council has urged us to look outward dignity and importance. If he had DFMS.

/ into these matters and take whatever action known more about human physiology he might seems strategic and appropriate and you will have used the example of some of the incon- be hearing more about it. It is a practical spicuous endocrine glands of the human body, Church example of what can be done to communicate tiny and never noticed but whose functioning across barriers of space and differences of out- keeps the whole body in balance. So, Paul says, look the realities of justice and human decency "God has combined the various parts of the Episcopal that are the prerequisites for peace. body, giving special honor to the humbler parts, the

of so that there might be no sense of division in The Third World the body." THIS LEADS US to see a third way in which Perhaps in the body of world society the

Archives the world-wide Christian Church may help us Church can teach men and nations that lesson— to seek peace and pursue it and that is that it that power and prestige are not the only meas- 2020. gives us the humility to accept the changes in ure of importance and honor, that what is small our role and status as a nation which revolu- and seemingly frail may have much to do for tionary upheavals in the world may make and to teach the so-called great powers. If it Copyright inevitable. One of the real obstacles to peace- is true that we live in revolutionary times when making in the world today is that too many we may look forward to even greater upheavals Americans still think we are powerful enough in the balance of world power, peace may depend to have our way if we want to insist upon it, on some such vision of the nature of world and that is an illusion. But how hard it is to society — a fellowship of differing kinds of accept the new facts of international life. people and groups of people, all united neverthe- Jesus talked about that difficulty when he less by some great fundamental all-important imagined a guest at a dinner party who takes an concerns for the dignity and welfare and free- important seat at the table only to be told that dom of all mankind, talking and listening to he has to move further down the table because each other about whatever concerns these great some one more important has come in. That is issues, and able to accept the lower place or the

Ten THB WITNESS higher place without resentment or without of this world-wide Christian fellowship in de- overweening pride. cisions and actions of our community and nation So at the communion rail as we unite our- selves with all Christian people everywhere who we may become not just "peace-talkers" but are uniting themselves with Christ's life and "peace-makers" and receive the promised bless- Christ's spirit, we are acting out the pattern of ing of Christ — "Blessed are the peace-makers, world peace, and as we carry out the implications for they shall be called the children of God."

WORSHIPPING OUR SELF-MADE GODS By Frederick J. Warnecke The Bishop of Bethlehem SERMON AT THE CONSECRATION publication. OF DEAN STEVENSON AS BISHOP and OF HARRISBURG, OCTOBER 13, 1966 reuse for He took them and sent them across the stream, and unsolved problems of the industrial revolution likewise everything that he had; magnified by our steadily progressing urbaniza- And Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with tion. There is racial tension, marital tensions, required him until the breaking of the day. social tensions, business tensions. There is a And he said unto him, "What is your name?" And he sickeningly sweet odor of moral decay. There said, "Jacob." is the world wide population explosion with its Permission Then he said, "Your name shall no more be called concommitant problems of hunger and starva- Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God." tion. There are new faiths and new gods among

DFMS. (Genesis, 32; verses 23-24 and 27-28) us — humanism walking on its feet of clay; / secular idols, jealous of other deities; material THIS IS a darkly mysterious, primitive tale. gods worshipped with perpetually unsatisfied Church Through a long night, Jacob wrestles by the ford passion; cultural divinities served under nation- of the brook Jabbok with an overshadowing al banners; and the god of gods — self. There power. Hour after hour there is almost unbear- is not much true atheism. We are too busy Episcopal able torture of body, doubt of mind, plunging worshipping our small self-made gods. So we the grief of spirit. Surely again and again that are told that the God who is the Father of our of night Jacob must have thought that this op- Lord Jesus Christ is no more! ponent was daemonic and evil. Surely again and again that night Jacob must have despaired at If There be Darkness Archives the strength of the one with whom he wrestled. OBVIOUSLY, if that be so, his Church is in

2020. Then comes the breaking of the dawn of a new trouble; and indeed these prophets of dark des- day and Jacob learns that he has been wrestling pair without and within do not spare the with God. And he is blessed. Church. Its faith, we are told, is patently obso-

Copyright There are still in every man's life the long lete; its language archaic; its forms meaning- night watches when a man wrestles with the less; its functioning irrelevant. It is a museum meaning1 of existence. There are also the long piece, unimportant in modern living. As I night watches of humanity. Perhaps in this listen to and read the comments of these critics present time we are in such a period, a new age it often seems to me that cynical men outside of darkness. Certainly the prophets of doom the Church meet faithless Christians within the and gloom reiterate endlessly that we are sick Church and discover that they have much in unto death. There is frustrating war in Viet- common. nam and rumors of greater wars that hang over Then in the midst of this maelstrom that is us like the sword of Damocles. There is a life today, we come together in an ancient cere- strange insecurity at home in the midst of pros- mony, using the language of the ages, expressing perity and full employment. There are the a faith that is thousands of years old, speaking

OCTOBER 27, 1966 Eleven of a heritage that spans the centuries; and we of victory and defeat, of success and failure, of ask God for his gifts of grace that this our bro- happiness and despair, we need the concept of ther may be a bishop in the Church of the Lord awe and mystery which darkness implies. Jesus Christ. What do we say by this act to Frederick W. Robertson commenting on this the world, to our brother and to ourselves? very passage has written, "Jacob held him more If there be darkness, God is in the darkness! convulsively fast ... in which there seems to "Yea, the darkness is no darkness with thee, be concealed a very deep truth. God is ap- but the night is as clear as the day; the dark- proached more nearly in that which is indefinite ness and the light to thee are both alike" (Psalm than in that which is definite and distinct. He 139:12). "In him was life, and the life was the is felt in awe and wonder and worship ... There light of men; and the light shineth in dark- is a sense in which darkness has more of God ness ..." (St. John 1:4-5) The darkness of than light has ... In sorrow, haunted by un- this world also belongs to God. certain presentiments, we feel the infinite It is one world, one life, truly a uni-verse, a one- around us." ness, and the oneness is of God. The great division The Good News publication. in men today is between those who think there THERE IS a religious agnosticism which con- and are two worlds and those who firmly believe there tains more faith than superficial piety. A Chris- is one. Two world people always inevitably place tian does not feel that he knows the ultimate reuse religion in a ghetto. They tell religion to stay mind of God; or that if God does not deign to for out of this part of life or that. They confine inform him, Jacob, of all the divine ways, God religion to its Gothic or Georgian or even con- is dead. We are to face the present, the given temporary mansions in a form of spiritual house required reality, the time which God has given to us. arrest. But it is either all the world of God or We are never to run away from it. We are to none of it is! Christ is Lord of all, or Lord of be faithful to it. We are to wrestle through none. the long watches of our nights, and leave the Permission But it is not only that God is to be seen as ultimte issues in the hands of God. Lord of all. God causes us to walk through When France fell in 1940, Winston Churchill

DFMS. these valleys of the shadow. He called Jacob

/ called his cabinet together late one night to re- to wrestle with him in the darkness of that port the defection of the French fleet and hence night. He calls every man to face the darkness the loss of the English naval codes. For the Church of life, within and without. moment the English fleet was immobolized. There is a fine implication in Harvey Cox's Churchill built up the gloom to a dramatic cli- choice of the word "celebrate" in respect to the max. He paused. The whole cabinet thought Episcopal world in which we find ourselves today. To that his next word would be one of despair and the "celebrate" is to accept with praise and joy and of defeat. But Churchill said quietly, "I find it all honor. We "celebrate" the blessed sacrament. rather inspiring!" Christians "celebrate" all of life as the gift of There are those who say that the war was

Archives God. won in that moment. No Assurance For after night comes day. After darkness, 2020. BUT there is no glib assurance for us in this there is the light. And while there are admit- call. We are not to forget that there are demonic tedly devilish, daemonic and evil powers, how powers and principalities who like Lucifer fight often in the light of a new day, the face of Copyright against God. There is no easy assurance that darkness becomes the face of God. because we believe in the ultimate victory of Our Lord wrestled through the long night of God, we will personally win in the struggle in Gethsemane, a night of inward questioning and the dark. We are expendable. Bishop Dibelius outward pain; a night of defeat and death. We has movingly reminded us that the word of are told that there was darkness on that Friday Christ that we were to be as sheep among wolves afternoon, that clouds hid the sun as our Lord is not the pretty pastoral picture we sometimes died. Even as Jacob, Christ in his humanity conjure up in our minds as we hear these words. faltered in the hours of darkness. "Abba, Fa- Said the bishop, wolves rend sheep. Wolves de- ther, let this cup pass from me." (St. Mark stroy sheep. 14:36). There was that agonizing cry from the Perhaps rather than taut simplistic concepts cross, which, no matter how we interpret it tears

Twelve THE WITNESS at our hearts, "My God, my God, why hast thou When Sir Thomas More was first called before forsaken me?" (St. Mark 15:34). the commissioners to answer the charges of But then, "Father, into thy hands I commend treason, he came out of the chamber in high my spirit." (St. Luke 23:46). But then, in the humor. What happened then has been reported dawn of the third day, God triumphs. God in detail. His son-in-law said to him, "I trust, reigns. God rules. God wins. "The powers of Sir, that all is well because you are so merry." death have done their worst, but Christ their "It is indeed, son Roper, I thank God," quoth legions hath dispersed!" The Christian faith is he. Good News. It is realistic, for it faces life with wide-eyed honesty. Yet in allegiance to God "Are you then put out of the Parliament and to his action in that life, it is always filled Bill?" I asked. with hope. In the dawns of life, after the long "By my troth, son Roper," he said, "I never night seasons, we discover that we have been remembered it." wrestling with God, and we are blessed. "Never remembered it, Sir", said I .... Then said he, "Wilt thou know, son Roper, The Spirit of Power publication. why I was so merry?" A CONTEMPORARY BISHOP must be con- "That I would gladly, Sir." and temporary. He may wish that he lived in another "In good faith, I rejoiced, son," said he, "that and supposedly golden age, but he doesn't. He reuse I had given the devil a foul fall, and that with is neither a first century apostle nor a medieval for those lords I had gone so far as without great prelate. shame I could never go back again." Sir Thomas He may wish that his diocese and see was of More — Saint Thomas More — had so com- required another character, but it isn't! mitted himself that he never could in honor go He may wish that he were of another tem- back! perament; a man of five talents rather than So is a bishop committed. one; a patient, serene saint, but he isn't. Permission Never in honor can he turn back! He may wish that his spiritual sun would al- ways shine, but the dark curtains of the rain My dear brother: DFMS.

/ of doubt pour down. Spiritual miasmas and fogs drop about him and the visibility of his I cannot trust myself to speak of my affection faith is zero. for you and for your family; of my appreciation Church for your devotion to our Lord Jesus Christ and "The darkness deepens . . . Change and decay to his holy Church. I cannot trust myself to in all I see." express the gratitude I and many feel for the All that a bishop can say and pray, all that Episcopal gifts you have shared with us in the diocese of any of us can say and pray in such times is, the Bethlehem. of "Lord, abide with me!" And he does! Indeed, I find myself in a quite wrongful self- A bishop, by God's grace and inspiration, by piting way beginning to apply part of my text his God-given mind and intellect, by his God-

Archives to myself: "And Jacob was left alone!" inspired heart and charity, can accept and even But we are not left alone! Nor will you be love the signs of the times. Too much in the

2020. left alone! The Spanish words of parting are Church we have retreated to a never-never land good ones, "Go with God!" of committees meeting endlessly to pass in- There will be many times when as a bishop nocuous resolutions about conditions that do not

Copyright you will walk through the darkness of night in exist. Too much in the Church we have with- your own soul and in the cure of souls in this drawn to seek a false security within the insti- diocese. "Go with God!" tution. Too much when we have timidly ven- tured out of our Gothic God-boxes, we have done You will wrestle with great and awful forces so weakly and incompetently. God calls a bish- in the world in which we live. As an athlete op not only to be a bishop in the Church of of note yourself and as an alumnus of a great God, but a bishop in the world of God. A bishop university whose principal pursuit is wrestling, is consecrated for life. "Stir up the grace of you will understand this metaphor. God which is given to thee by this imposition of Wrestle through the dark night without des- our hands; for God hath not given us the spirit pair. So you will fulfill the will of God for of fear, but of power!" (The Consecrating of those who serve him in the episcopate. Bishops). And in the dawn, there will be his blessing!

OCTOBER 27, 1966 Thirteen CALLED TO BE SAINTS By Alanson B. Houghton Curate at the Epiphany, New York WE ARE CALLED TO BE SAINTS EVEN IF WE DO NOT CONSIDER OURSELVES VERY GOOD MATERIAL SOMEONE has discovered the following resolu- for that matter, was not talking to or about tion buried deep in the dusty archives of an old people who were more pious, or more precious, New England church. "Be it resolved: The or more perfect than anyone else. He was talk- earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. Be ing to those who, even under the most adverse it resolved: That the fullness thereof belongs conditions, were still willing to face up to the to the saints. Be it resolved: That we are the exciting, but extremely difficult demands of publication. saints." their newly born Christian faith. and We chuckle over this quaint resolution be- These Christians were somehow willing to cause it is amusing and in its prideful, au- commit themselves to the ongoing work of their reuse new community; a community of people caught for thoritative, all knowing tone, is typically seventeenth century New England. But, up in a new and deeper understanding of their surprisingly enough, the unknown writer of this God and of themselves and of those around required resolution may not have been quite the fool for them. Paul was talking about people who, be- which we take him. What he says in the last cause they were truly human, could live with line points to a very fundamental fact; a fact their own private failings, as well as with the

Permission that we, as Christians, tend to ignore and at obvious failings of those they knew so well. which we even scoff. Very simply it is this. These were people with open minds and loving We are the saints; or at least we are called to hearts; people who, because God had reached DFMS. / be. out to them through Jesus Christ, instinctively We may choose to regard ourselves, with a reached out, in turn, toward their fellow beings

Church certain subconscious delight, as more sinner in compassion and in concern. than saint. We may even fall into the reverse These were people who were willing to take trap of pretending not to, but secretly believing risks for what they believed in, even if it meant

Episcopal and cherishing all those nice thoughts we have the offering of their own lives. These people

the about ourselves. But whatever path we choose were, and still are, the saints; human beings, of to take, it still doesn't alter the fact that each not superhuman beings; men and women just one of us is still called to be a saint! like us — except that they love others more Both the Old and New Testaments point to than others love them and they love God more Archives this. The Psalmist addresses himself to "the than they love themselves. Difficult Path

2020. saints that are in the earth" (Psalm 16:3) and urges "Sing unto the Lord, 0 ye saints of his" (Psalm 30:4). In the New Testament, St. Paul IN THESE BUSY, increasingly secular times, we rarely recognize or appreciate a true saint;

Copyright in writing to the infant Ephesian Church says: "Now therefore ye are no more strangers and one who so truly loves his Lord that he sees foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints" him in all who pass his way, whatever their (Ephesians 2:19) and in an earlier letter ad- condition or station in life. During their so- dresses the church at Philippi as "all the saints journ among us, there is often little on the in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi" (Phili- surface to set these special people apart because ppians 1:1). true sainthood is not flashy or obvious, or much less even applauded. As Nathaniel Howe once Newer Understanding said: "The way of this world is to praise dead THESE EXHORTATIONS were addressed to saints and to persecute living ones." Thus, the living people, people who were daily struggling path of sainthood can be difficult as well as to learn more about and to live in the shadow lonely. Remember that true sainthood is more of their risen Lord. Paul, or even the Psalmist something you are than something you feel. Fourteen THB WITNESS True sainthood is often the least obvious of the have been publicly recognized as saints per se. many gifts of God, which is also why it is some- And I would venture a guess that not one of thing very special indeed. them ever considered himself or herself to be Look for a moment at two of our Lord's of saintly material. closest disciples, Simon Peter and James, the son This is the intriguing and mystifying and of Zebedee. These men were not looked on by challenging thing about sainthood. It's not al- their contemporaries as particularly saintly men. ways those who go to church regularly or who Peter was loud, impetuous, unreliable in a pinch think they are good people or those who thank and extremely volatile on some very funda- God that they are not like the unfortunate soul mental issues. Yet, because of the deepening whom they pass on the street, or even those influence of Jesus' love and demands upon him, who are known, by themselves and others, for Peter grew and grew in faith and commitment. all their good works. The real saints of this His so-called irritating traits didn't disappear world seem to move through life with a quiet, like magic, or even disappear at all. But along- unselfconscious grace; with an uncluttered ap- side of them and in spite of them were the less preciation for all that God has made, both ani- publication. obvious, but more lasting traits of love and mate and inanimate; with a love for God that and loyalty and determination. And in his final test, is evidenced by their own unselfish reaching out Peter showed his true colors by having the toward their fellow human beings; with a joy reuse courage and the humility to request that he be and a peace that the rest of us cannot quite for crucified upside down because he felt unworthy fathom. They do all this with such a lovely to die in the same fashion as had his Lord. simplicity and dignity that all we can do when they pass our way is to tip our hats and thank required Paying the Price JAMES, like Peter, was a simple man, but one God for their saintly example. who became quickly prideful the more our Lord A True Story became the center of attention. He completely WE ARE ALL called to be saints. Although Permission misunderstood what Jesus was talking about many of us do not or, for reasons best known when he described the coming kingdom. He even to ourselves, cannot respond to that call, there DFMS.

/ callously pushed his own mother forward to ask are those special people who do. I'd like to tell for him and his brother a preferential place in you a story about such a person. This is a what he thought was to be an earthly kingdom. true story — about an old woman in her late Church James when asked if he was willing to drink eighties, who lives alone in a fourth floor walk- the cup or pay the price required for member- up. She has little money. She has to beg from ship in the kingdom, replied in the affirmative the nearby stores for stale bread, or old greens, Episcopal with a bravado and a boastfulness that obviously or whatever else she can find that has been dis- the

of did not sit well with those who heard him. But, carded in order to survive. But do you know like Peter, there was a less obvious "something" what she does? She goes around and visits and within him which stood by him through those shares what she has scavenged with the other

Archives dark days leading up to our Lord's crucifixion old people in her block; those who are less able and later on. James had a basic faith and con- than she is to move around. She rubs their 2020. viction which finally helped him cope with and backs, she cheers their day, she helps them in accept what none of the disciples really expected any other way that she is able; barely keeping —the Resurrection. And there was his deep enough food or time for herself. I'm not making Copyright and abiding love for his Lord, a growing under- this story up — for I have been privileged standing of what really was important in life enough to have met this extraordinary woman. that gave him the strength to be willing to offer There is something very special about her. She his life in the service of that Lord. And, as you reaches out in almost childlike trust for some- know, James was the first of the disciples to one to guide her across the street. pay this ultimate price. One day as I was passing by where she lives, These men and so many, many other men and she asked me to carry her bundles up the stairs women down through the years have been called and the moving thing to me was that she asked to be saints and have answered that call. Each in such a way as if doing something for some- has been called uniquely and each has answered body else was as natural as life itself. She just uniquely. Only a few in proportion have been expected me to share her burden with her as called upon to die for their faith. Only a few she has so unselfishly shared the burdens of

OCTOBER 27, 1966 Viffen others. This old woman doesn't stand out in a better than we, we are the ones who are the crowd, for you would probably find her in the better for it. Therefore all I can do is para- back row if you noticed her at all. I have no phrase slightly St. Paul's greeting to the Roman idea of her church habits, nor do I care. Un- Church which in those late days of the first fortunately, I don't even know her name. But century was experiencing some of the same I do know one thing. This old woman in her problems we face, as Christians, in the latter own unique and wonderful and simple way has days of the twentieth century. answered the call; the very same call each one "To all that be in New York, especially those of us has the opportunity to answer if only we here in the Church of the Epiphany this morn- will. ing — beloved of God — called to be saints — This old woman may well be our beacon; for grace to you and peace from God our Father once we have seen or known or heard of one far and the Lord Jesus Christ".

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for structure at State and Pearl Streets in Manhattan as a new Christian themes center and headquarters to re- required place its existing building at 25 South Street, erected by the Institute in 1913.

ERICH FROMM: A PROTESTANT CRITIQUE. By J. STANLEY GLEN. Joint announcement of the Permission Arguing that Fromm's psychology and view of religion are organization's intent was made basically Marxian, Dr. Glen analyzes in detail their bearing by Franklin E. Vilas, president, upon Protestantism, and their wider implications for Evangeli- DFMS. and the Rev. John M. Mulligan, / cal Christianity. $5.95 director. The new building will be lo- RELIGION IN CONTEMPORARY DEBATE. By ALAN RICHARDSON. Church Christian faith based on Biblical revelation is here brought into cated on a choice site which clearer definition, and defended against the inroads of present- directly overlooks Battery Park day theologians who lean toward a kind of religious atheism. and New York Harbor. A por- $2.75 Episcopal tion of its foundation will rest on a strip of land where the old the

of Dutch fort of Nieu Amsterdam Now in paperback: was situated. The over-all archi- A COMPEND OF LUTHER'S THEOLOGY. Edited by HUGH T. KERR, JR. tectural design and concept, A favorite in many schools for 23 years. This paperback edi- Archives according to Eggers & Higgins, tion contains new material summarizing recent Luther research and translation projects. $1.95 architects, is in harmony with

2020. current and known future re- development plans of the area. A new volume in Cost of the project is esti- Copyright WESTMINSTER STUDIES IN CHRISTIAN mated at around $7.5 million, COMMUNICATION and completion is expected by COMMUNICATING REALITY THROUGH SYMBOLS. By EVERETT M. STOWE. An examination of symbolism in myth, language, art, late 1967. The Institute will religion, and science—showing how each has been used, and continue to function in its pres- can be used, to communicate Christian faith. $4.95 ent location until the new build- NOW AT YOUR BOOKSTORE ing is ready for occupancy. The Rev. Mr. Mulligan em- THE WESTMINSTER PRESS phasized that in the present Witherspoon Building, Philadelphia, Pa. 19107 era, accommodations for seamen ashore must be as modern and hospitable as those provided for any metropolitan visitor. Be-

Sixteen THS WITNESS cause of the fast turn-around income and gifts of individuals, in the press about Bishop Pike. of merchant ships in port, and church groups and foundations. I am greatly distressed about the increased mechanization of this for I hoped this could first ships, a seaman spends relative- HOUGHTON WAS come before the House of Bish- ly little time in port and hence IN BUSINESS ops when it meets at the end of October. his recreational and other needs * Alanson Houghton is an- while ashore must be met by other of those fellows who are "In the Episcopal Church, up-dated services and program, quitting good jobs these days to Bishop Louttit, or any bishop, the director added. go into the ministry. The writer has the same right for opinion, the same responsibility and Speaking for the Institute's of the piece you'll find on page freedom to speak and act as Board of Managers, Mr. Vilas fourteen was formerly director said the decision to build was Bishop Pike does. Bishop Lout- of production for a glass manu- tit and a few other bishops have prompted by several factors, facturing company. among them the increasing made a presentment to the Pre- siding Bishop concerning their costs of maintaining what he BISHOP HIGLEY AGAINST termed the "obsolete and eco- feelings about Bishop Pike's

publication. HERESY TRIAL nomically - inefficient" South words and actions. and Street building, as well as the • Bishop Walter M. Higley of "According to the canon law changing requirements of sea- Central New York said that he of the Episcopal Church if a reuse men today. believes that Bishop Pike should presentment is made, it shall be for "As the needs of seamen have not be brought to trial on char- investigated by a board of in- altered, so must we change our ges of heresy. His remarks quiry to see whether the charges program and accommodations were contained in his annual are true. The recommendations required to meet these needs," he said. report to the diocese. of that board determine whether "We cannot adequately conform "I should like to say just a or not there will be a trial of to this new set of requirements few words concerning the news a bishop.

Permission with our existing out-moded facilities." The new building design, he DFMS.

/ pointed out, reflects advanced concepts of ministering to sea- men's needs and was conceived Church only after long study by the There MUST be a reason Institute's board of managers, architects, and staff. Episcopal The State Street structure If your property— ^r-.. "; r-j, will be pleasantly sur- the will consist of two principal ele- church, school, camp,

which will house social, reli- church-affiliated edi- \>>. •.** not merely changed gious, recreational and educa- fice—is not insured by r \ 1Q our name; we have also Archives tional facilities. The Rev. Roscoe us, there must be a rea- y added lines which are T. Foust, a member of the Wit- son. It can't be cost or ^. ar cu ar

2020. itS^ °* P *' ' interest to ness editorial board, is director coverage—or can it? Write if? churches and church-related of this division. The other is and let us know the details of organizations. Please let us hear an eighteen-story tower which your present policies and we will from you and we will tell you about Copyright will provide living or "hotel" make a comparison for you—at no the many new and interesting things accommodations for visiting charge and with no obligation. You that we are doing these days. seamen. The Institute is non-sectarian, serving men of all nations and creeds. Sixty per cent of its THE CHURCH INSURANCE COMPANY financial support comes from Affiliate of THE CHURCH PENSION FUND merchant seamen themselves, 20 Exchange Place, New York, N.Y. 10005 through purchase of lodgings, meals and other services. About NAME. one-third of its annual budget ADDRESS. is met through endowment City and State

OCTOBER 27, 1966 Seventeen "Bishop Pike at present has REV. WALDO F. CHASE of the last living Episcopalians DIES AT AGE 104 to be confirmed by the first had charges made against him. Bishop of California, the Rt. He should not be considered • The oldest priest in the Rev. William J. Kip, in 1882. At guilty of them until a fair and American Church, the Rev. that time the young Mr. Chase Waldo F. Chase, died at the canonical hearing has been held. was organist and choirmaster Episcopal Home in Alhambra, of St. Paul's Church, San Diego, "Personally, I hope that this Calif, on October 4, 1966. He trial will not come to pass, for under the Rev. Henry B. Re- was in his 105th year and re- starick; later bishop of Hawaii. from my knowledge of history, mained active and mentally alert the Church has always suffered until almost the end. Until SACRAMENTO TACKLES serious injury with no gain or recent months he assisted at the TOUGH PROBLEMS altar both at his home parish, benefit from such action. St. Matthias, Whittier, Calif, as • Delegates from 12 congre- "It seems to me that in this well as at the home chapel. gations of metropolitan Sacra- mento, Calif., came together for enlightened day there is some Officiating at his funeral at far better way to handle the a week-end of hard work to take St. Matthias were Bishop Bloy a disciplined look at the com- publication. situation in love. We need to of Los Angeles, Bishop Rusack, munity and help define how the and seek God's guidance in this, and suffragan, Bishop Robert Good- Episcopal Church can carry on I ask you to remember Bishop en, suffragan retired, and the a more effective ministry to the reuse Pike and all of the bishops as we clergy staff of St. Matthias. rapidly growing and changing for study this matter." Fr. Chase may have been one community. More than one year in the planning, under the chairmanship of the Rev. W. required Renouf, diocesan program co- JANUARY 5, 1967 ordinator, the conference dealt with such problems as suicide—

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/ life and problems — one divorce IS NOTHING WE CAN DO ABOUT IT SINCE IT IS A POST for every marriage —, aging OFFICE REGULATION THAT BECOMES EFFECTIVE ON and welfare. Church JANUARY 1. Community leaders serving as resource people included repre- sentatives of the county welfare Episcopal department, two county coron- the ZIP ers, a marriage counselor in of private practice, a psychiatrist member of the suicide preven- IF YOUR PRESENT WRAPPER DOES NOT HAVE IT USE tion authority, the president of Archives THE FORM BELOW AND MAIL AT ONCE the family service agency, a counselor of the county concilia- 2020. tion Court, leaders of the alcoholism center and center of rehabilitation, two Protestant Copyright The Witness Tunkhannock, Pa. 18657 ministers and a Roman Catholic priest, as well as an Episcopal Name priest-social worker and repre- sentatives of the medical pro- fession. Street Structural problems, such as poverty, employment, education, City housing, race, were identified by the director of the county plan- ning commission and the chair- State ZIP man of the county board of supervisors.

Eighteen THB WITNESS Will the participants be able the week on Bishop Louttit to untangle the writer's thought which disturbed me greatly, but BACKFIRE from his carelessly written then the good Bishop has dis- prose? I predict that the eager- turbed me before, I turned to Mary Faith Sutton ness to understand Mr. Brown's the back of the book and came College Worker, Radford College, Va. philosophy will evaporate as forward. earnest seekers dispute over the The article entitled "That A reply to Bishop Lichten- meaning of his sentences. Difficult Parable" was very berger's "To Our Lord Jesus" of Then if the meaning is pinned helpful and could have made the October 6: down, will an open - minded issue well worth while without Dear Arthur: group be able to resolve the any other articles. We hadn't realized how out of frightful inconsistencies in the "The Liberation of the touch we've been. It seems im- over-all argument? I cannot Church" was something else possible that you haven't heard imagine, for example, how a again. That article took the of my Father's "death" before small number of secessionists bitter taste of the first article this. from the Establishment will go away entirely. Please set your hearts and publication. about monumental tasks such as When I came to the end of minds at rest. Father is very "maintaining a proper balance John Pairman Brown's great and much alive, and the same as of desert and jungle." dissertation on the times and ever. Our real concern is for Finally what will be the re- teaching of Jesus, the historical reuse the Holy Ghost. He is so in- ward for the young idealist who changes effecting Christianity for volved in things that we often finds in this article a new and the wonderful and logical wonder at His power. You gospel for these times ? Will he approach in developing his arti- creatures are developing things required not discover eventually that cle I began to wonder if I could at such a rate that He is always some of the "blessed poor" are procure several copies of the on the move. only ordinary people, that some issue of Witness. I was sur- I personally suspect that He representatives of the hated rich prised and delighted see the last Permission is responsible for a lot of this are rather decent after all, and little paragraph about reprints. talk about Father's "death". Be- that every evil thing he can cause you're all thinking in so You will find my check en-

DFMS. point to is, and has been, a closed in the sum of two dollars / many different ways, He's had matter of great concern to for ten copies of "The Liberation to change your thinking about many, many of his fellow human Father also. But be assured of the Church". Church beings ? that Father's "death" is only a But by then he will be part of , Francis C. Huntington creating of new thoughts about the Establishment and will both Clergy Staff of Him. Old Father has died in Trinity Parish, New York Episcopal smile and understand when a one sense, but heaven only That was a very good editori- the knows what kind of a resurrec- new generation announces that of it has discovered Truth. al on the Louttit-Pike situation tion the Holy Ghost will bring in the Oct. 13 issue. I also liked about this time. Harvey T. Bassett your note about the trial of

Archives You fellows at the seminary Attorney of Detroit, Michigan Bishop Brown. are just going to have to hold Your October 13th issue of You are absolutely right —

2020. on tight but loose 'cause the the Witness has been particular- this is no time for a heresy trial. answer is blowin' in the wind. ly interesting and uplifting for The Love of God, the Fellow- me.

Copyright ship of the Holy Ghost, and my After reading your story of Grace be with you all evermore. A Reply Frances (Mrs. H. W.) Benz Churchwoman, Cleveland Heights, O. The Prayer Book to the Right Obviously the editors expect ITS HISTORY Burke Rivers a good deal of interest to be Rectof of St. Stephen's, generated by John Pairman AND PURPOSE WUkes-Barre, Pa. Brown's "The Liberation of the Irving P. Johnson A Letter to a Friend who had been Church" (10/13/66) because Sending Clipping from Various The late Bishop of Colorado Publications of the Radical Right they are making reprints avail- and founder of The Witness able. 25c a copy $2 for ten Three speculations come to 25c a copy $2 for ten THE WITNESS mind as I visualize discussion THE WITNESS Tunkhannock, Pa. 18657 groups studying this article. Tunkhannock, Pa. 18657 Schools of the Church

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