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would be letting our Methodist Union With Methodists Fails friends down," he added. Because of Anglican Vote The Anglican primate com- publication. plained bitterly that critics of the present "union scheme" had and * In historic votes Anglican terbury bishops voted in favor not put forward alternative pro- convocations of Canterbury and and 2 against, while 11 York posals. "The way now is to cling reuse York failed to give the majority bishops voted in favor and 3 to the fact that the Methodist for needed to take the first step against. conference gives overwhelming into union with the Methodist Among the Canterbury clergy support while the convocations

required Church, although the Methodist 154 voted for union, with 77 op- vote is no cause for despair," he conference endorsed union at posed, while York clergy voted added. Birmingham. 71 in favor and 34 against. During the long Anglican de- A few cries of "shame" were While each of the four houses bate Archbishop Ramsey Permission heard from the public galleries thus showed more than the re- warned bishops and clergy that of church house at Westminster quired two-thirds majority to there would be a far deeper and

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/ pass the resolution, the over-all "more intractable division" in of Canterbury announced that majority was only 69 per cent — the Church of England if they the convocations had rejected well below the necessary 75 per voted against going forward Church the plan for union. cent. The resolution thus failed. into unity with Methodists than if they did. The Anglican primate said si- At Birmingham, 524 Method- lence was preferable. The archbishop also created a Episcopal ist clergy and laymen voted in Archbishop Donald Coggan of stir just before the luncheon the favor and 153 against, giving a break by reading the following

of York then said prayers "for our ballot of 77.4 per cent for union, message received from the Ro- Methodist brethren at Birming- well above the 75 per cent the man Catholic Primate, John ham and throughout the coun- conference had decided was Archives try," and also called for prayers necessary. Cardinal Heenan of Westmin- "for a new way forward to ster: "May God guide and bless

2020. unity." At a special press conference your proceedings. You have our later, Archbishop Ramsey said The atmosphere was tense best wishes and prayers." he was saddened and disap- Dr. Ramsey issued his warn- throughout the packed assembly pointed by the convocations Copyright ing in a long statement giving hall as the four houses of An- vote, which failed to match the glican bishops and clergy form- final advice to the convocations lead the Methodists had given in the afternoon. After sum- ing the two Anglican convoca- at Birmingham. tions voted separately on the ming up all earlier debates and union resolution after a day- He was "delighted" with the votes on the unity issue and the long debate. The resolution Methodist vote, he said. He warnings of what might happen called on the convocations to thought there would now be if the Church of England either give final approval to inaugura- some unhappiness in the church voted for or against unity, he tion of stage one of the current but "the convocations vote is said: "It's wrong and danger- Anglican-Methodist union plan good enough to look forward to ous for us to allow our decisions —and a similar resolution was the same proposals being put to be decided by cries of 'wolf, before the Methodist conference forward in the not too distant wolf.' There have been such in Birmingham. future." cries a few times too often. In the convocations, 27 Can- "If we do not do that we Crises of division can be healed Three JULT 24, 1969 in shorter time than might be expected as soon as fear ceases Philadelphia Ministers Arrested to be the dominant factor." "Moral courage," he said, "has For Occupying White Church had its place in leadership of our church in the past and still can * An eight-day occupation of from the building, however, a if we let it." a white inner city Methodist white support group, people for "Some people," he added, church ended as police arrested human rights, occupied Meth- "have got hold of a very mis- eight ministers — one of them odist headquarters downtown to leading picture and talk as if white — at the church's altar. protest the eviction. They said there was immediately going to Cookman United Methodist they would remain in the Meth- be a united church and that church, in a predominantly odist offices "indefinitely." some of us would jump on it black community, had been oc- The police commissioner en- like a wagon and some of us cupied by about 50 blacks, most tered the church and addressed would be left behind. This is of them members of a local the ministers, who were kneel- not so. Stage one will last no black unity council and the ing at the altar rail. He asked longer than is necessary, but it Philadelphia unit of the national them to "leave on your own," publication. will last as long as is necessary black economic development con- noting that if arrested, they and for the solving of a good many ference. would have to spend the night problems before stage two can in jail.

reuse The occupiers had called upon begin." Woodruff, acting as the for the Philadelphia Methodist mis- Dr. Ramsey added, "Let us sionary and church extension group's spokesman, rose and ex- avoid extravagant language on society to turn over the deed of plained that he could not leave. required either side ... I shall vote 'yes' the church "to the community." "If you place me under arrest," at seven o'clock tonight." Throughout the occupation, the he said, "I will walk out. We Convocation debates began church was used for neighbor- have difficulty understanding hood recreation and African his- how the Methodist Church can

Permission when Bishop Edward Roberts of Ely moved the resolution calling tory classes. believe this building is theirs. This building is God's house and on the convocations to give final The society, holding that the

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/ approval to inauguration of church was already being used community and this church is stage one. He called on the con- for community purposes, had ours." vocations not simply to reflect said it would not negotiate the Church and represent church opinion, matter until the blacks left the The officer replied, "I am a but also to give "that lead which church, and secured a court or- policeman and I cannot get in- I believe is eagerly awaited by a der to force the blacks to leave. volved in such rhetoric. I must

Episcopal take the necessary legal action." great many of the priests and One of the black ministers the laity among whom we are called arrested was the Rev. James E. The ministers were then es- of to serve." Woodruff, Episcopal urban mis- corted from the building and Subsequently Bishop John sioner. The white minister was placed in a waiting police van. Moorman of Ripon and Bishop A four-man police detail was Archives the Rev. Robert Horton, 68, a Cyril Bulley of Carlisle said they retired United Methodist clergy- assigned to the church for at least 24 hours to prevent a re-

2020. would vote against the resolu- man. occupation. tion. Nearly 1,000 police were in- Bishop Moorman said he volved in the operation, includ- The arrested clergymen spent would like to see a planned policy the night of July 10 in jail and Copyright ing members of the city's high- of mutual education and col- way patrol units and canine were released on bail the follow- laboration between the Anglican units. The arrests was led by ing day. and Methodist Churches with police commissioner Frank Riz- The church has 127 members; both experimenting with many zo. There was no physical vi- reportedly only one is a Negro. of the things they would have to olence during the arrest, but a Observers noted that the do if union took place, but Arch- crowd of 600 booed the police church had been left in good bishop Ramsey said this was al- and cheered those being ar- order by the occupiers, despite ready being done. rested. About 2,000 residents of daily use by up to 200 children. Both Bishops Moorman and the community signed a petition On Sunday, July 13, the church Bulley said they were not voting supporting the occupation; 30 was closed and locked. It will re- against union with Methodists, signed a petition opposing the main closed until a permanent but only against the present pro- take-over. injunction against further occu- posals. As the blacks were removed pation can be obtained.

Four THE WITNESS professional or executive posi- Stress Human Relationships tions. All the major churches related to the council were In Church Use of Media covered in the study, as were some of the smaller bodies. * A Hollywood director told a scld a bill of goods, whether it "Tabulations of the question- panel of international catecheti- is religion or boxes of soap." cal specialists here that if the naire responses indicated that Instead of a direct approach, three-fourths of the agencies church wants to make effective he said, "religion must be use of the media it must be will- claimed that women received the worked into stories about people same salaries as men for the ing to invest large sums of mon- to show there is a value in good- ey in creative new ideas. same position," Brewer said. ness." "None reported that women re- Frank Capra drew on 40 years "Of what use is religion," he ceived more salary and eight experience as a director in his askad "unless it can help people agencies reported less salary for address to more than 50 Ro- with their problem's? If the the same position. Eight agen- man Catholic catechetical schol- church has any mission at all, cies did not report on this is- publication. ars and mass media experts at- this is it." sue." and tending the international study "We are villains if we kill Brewer found these state- week on mass media and cate- people's hopes and dreams," he reuse ments about equal salaries in chetics. declared. for conflict with an analysis of the "You can't compete with en- Capra called Christianity "the actual salaries paid. "A study tertainment in the theaters and hope of the world" and urged of the responses — of salaries required on television," Capra said, "un- that this message of hope be paid—would indicate that either less you make your message as communicated to the people women were not holding the exciting as the best entertain- through films and television. same types of positions as ment." Throughout its history, he men, or that the respondents Permission Successful script writers for said, the truths of Christianity were unaware or uncommunica- the entertainment industry, he have found expression in a va- tive about the salary differences

DFMS. explained, must tell stories between men and women pro-

/ riety of artistic forms such as about people and human rela- music, painting asd sculpturing. fessionals," he said. tionships and at the same time Today, he said, in film Chris-

Church From the reported total of be frank about what they are tians have available to them 1,558 positions, Brewer found saying. "one of the greatest art forms that 3.2 per cent were in the "We must have the quality of man has ever had" and, he $20,000 and over category, with Episcopal human relationships in films," added, "there is no reason why 22.8 per cent in the $10,000 and the he said. "We must have heart the Christian message cannot be under range. of and emotional impact in films to expressed in that form." reach the soul and spirit. If "For men. 3.5 per cent re- we don't do this, the theaters ceived $20,000 or more; for

Archives CHURCHES DISCRIMINATE will all be empty." women, only 2.0 per cent," he AGAINST WOMEN said. "At the other extreme,

2020. Today, he continued, the * National offices of Protes- 16.1 per cent of the men re- church is finally recognizing the ceived under $10,000 as com- potential of the media and dis- tant churches and interdenomi- national agencies engage in "the pared with 43.2 per cent of the Copyright covering that "the real difficul- women. The proportion of men ty is getting artists who can rhetoric of equality of oppor- tunity for women and men" but to women is much higher for use the Christian message and all salary grades above $12,500." use it prudently." actually practice "considerable discrimination" against women, The researcher arranged the "Christians have plenty to according to the director of the reported salaries on a scale of say," Capra noted, "because NCC department of research. eight grades, with a low of there has never been anything Earl D. C. Brewer based his "under $7,500" and a high of like Christ in the history of conclusions on replies to a ques- "$22,500 and over." The modal mankind. But we've got to tell tionnaire sent to 156 national grade — the category in which people about this in many dif- boards and agencies. Responses the highest percentage is found ferent ways." were received from 65 related to — for men is from $12,500 to "Any message that is too ob- 17 Protestant and Orthodox de- $15,000 — a grade which in- vious," he warned, "will let the nominations as well as the NCC. cluded 34.5 per cent of the men. audience know they are being The questionnaire covered only For women the modal grade

JULY 24, 1969 is two steps down to the §7,500 ance" of extreme evangelicals Mme. Dung asked for support to $10,000 level, with 39.1 per and Anglo-Catholics had halted to end the war and suffering, cent of all the women in this the wishes of the majority in and compared the U.S. battle in category. the Church of England and Vietnam to a fight between an One of every five agency re- warned that "time for discus- elephant and an ant — in which spondents to the questionnaire sion has passed and has failed. the ant will win. indicated that women were ex- The time for action is now ripe. Mme. The said she had ex- cluded from executive positions. Let us go ahead by the majority plained to her children that she "Exclusions seemed to be based decision." must leave home to "call upon on the fact that a position called the mothers of Canada and the for an ordained person, and CLERGY INVOLVED IN U.S. to ask the Nixon govern- women were excluded from ordi- REVOLUTION PLAN ment to stop the war." nation," Brewer said. The following day, the Viet- * Roman Catholic priests are namese women, with their inter- ANGLICAN BISHOPS VISIT part of a plot to promote violent preters, travelled to Niagara METHODIST CHURCHES revolution throughout Latin Falls, Ontario to meet with U.S. America, according to a series women on the Canadian side of publication. * Several Anglican bishops at- of articles in the daily news- the border. tended Sunday services at paper, La Prensa, Buenos Aires. and Canadian immigration o f f i- Methodist churches in British The articles said that the cials detained some 200 U.S. reuse cities as a sign of their unity revolution, planned to take place women who tried to cross the for with Methodists who had en- before the end of the year, will rainbow bridge to meet the Viet- dorsed the plan for union with involve a coordinated effort by namese, but allowed them to the Church of England (see priests, students, workers, peas- enter after a superior officer required page three). ants and teachers. gave them clearance. Bishop William Greer of Man- Revolutionary committees are The U.S. women represented chester announced at his cathe- to be established in most major peace groups in 10 cities. They

Permission dral that he would be "very Latin American cities and "the were ordered to hide their picket happy to give permission, to spark will be set off simulta- signs and not distribute leaflets, those who ask it, for baptized neously in all the cities the or- even to the press. DFMS. / Methodists to receive commu- ganization has spread to," ac- In Canada, the three women nion in the Church of England." cording to La Prensa. are guests of the 3,000-member

Church The Anglican 's state- Catholic students will take a voice of women organization. ment was welcomed warmly by leading part in street actions, Before the incident at the bor- Manchester Methodist leaders the paper said, and priests will der, the Vietnamese had met

Episcopal who also noted that Bishop play a major role because "the Canadian women and 100 U.S. women at the University of the Greer had no objection to An- image of Christ must preside of glicans receiving communion in over the great transformation." Toronto. the Methodist Church. The articles said that plans CHURCH CONFERENCE Such inter-communion did, in for the revolution were made in RAPS U.S. WAR Archives fact, take place at Cambridge on June during a meeting in Mon- tevideo and that the objectives * A conference on cooperation 2020. July 13, when the Rev. David and peace between peoples, Isitt, chaplain of St. Edward's of the proposed revolution in- clude radical changes in govern- meeting at an ancient Orthodox church, led members of his An- monastery in Zagorsk, U.S.S.R., glican congregation to Wesley ment and social and economic Copyright adopted resolutions criticizing Methodist church. system throughout the contin- ent. the U.S., Israel and West Ger- Bishop Riches of Lincoln told many and condemned racism a Methodist congregation, and apartheid. "We've been told by opponents NORTH VIETNAMESE WOMEN ON TOUR Delegates condemned "t h e that a better scheme for reunion aggressive war of the U.S." in is possible. It's now up to them * Three women from North Vietnam, calling it "near geno- to produce one which is accept- Vietnam are touring Canada to cidal" and "the most shameful able to themselves and to the give their views on the war. of our times." majority in both Churches." They are Nguyen Ngoc Dung, a All "men of goodwill" were Canon Douglas Rhymes of leader in women's student move- asked to contribute toward the Southwark cathedral, in a ser- ments ; Vo Thi The, professor of reestablishment of peace in mon at nearby St. Giles church, literature at the University of Southeast Asia as soon as pos- declared that an "unholy alli- Hanoi; and Le Thi Cao. sible.

THE WITNESS EDITORIAL Sometimes many prisoners are stuffed into small Religious Freedom cells which do not allow for lying down or some- times even for sitting; and this, when it is steam- In Vietnam hot, when excrement accumulates, and when the prisoners are seldom released for exercise, is tor- THE NEWS HEAD in our June 26 number said: ture indeed. Beating is the most common form "Find Thieu-Ky Run a Police State." Those who of abuse. Several ex-prisoners testified that it is did the finding was a group of U.S. citizens who not unusual to torture family members, including went to Vietnam as a team to study religious and children, before the eyes of the prisoners. political freedom in that country. On the team was Bishop James Armstrong of the United Meth- The study team has reached the conclusion that odist Church; the Rev. Robert F. Drinan, Jesuit the Thieu-Ky government has imprisoned thou- publication. and dean of Boston Law School; Rear Admiral sands of persons without the most fundamental and Arnold E. True, U.S. navy, retired; Congressman elements of a fair hearing, and in a shocking num- Conyers of Michigan and others — eight in all. ber of instances, without even apprising the im- reuse Here is what they found, abridged from the prisoned persons of the charges against them. for Congressional Record of June 18, page H4984: This extraordinary development has had a chilling impact on all political activities. Members of the study team met with leaders required of five old line political parties no longer per- Before the team left Saigon they cabled Pres- mitted to function. These men have all been ac- ident Nixon as follows: tive in the resistance movement against the "Speaking for peace or in any other way op- Permission French and were ardent nationalists. Their par- posing the government of South Vietnam easily ties have been outlawed, their requests to publish brings the charge of communist sympathy and

DFMS. a newspaper have gone unanswered. These men subsequent arrest. There must be no illusions / reflect a vast middle position. They have known that this climate of religious and political suppres- imprisonment and sacrifice. A retired general sion is compatible with either a representative or Church present had been in prison 11 times. a stable government." The large majority of those imprisoned are held because they oppose the government. Ambassa- Susan Sontag has just written a book of essays Episcopal dor Colby, General Abrams' deputy for pacifica- which prompted Lawrence Bensky, former man- the aging editor of Ramparts, to describe her in a of tion, said the number of prisoners had gone up and will continue to go up as pacification con- review as indignant, stoical, complex, useful — tinues. The study team spent several hours at and moral. Archives the women's prison. The cells and large prison She went to Hanoi in 1968 and one of the essays rooms were overcrowded. This was especially is about the visit. "What I'd been creating and 2020. hard on nursing mothers and those with small enduring for the last few years was a Vietnam children. Sanitation was primitive and inade- inside my head, under my skin, in the pit of my

Copyright quate. Team members were concerned about the stomach," she writes, adding that she is "a stub- large number of prisoners who had not been sen- bornly unspecialized writer who has so far been tenced after many months of detention, the in- largely unable to incorporate into either novels humanity of some sentences—one slight old wom- or essays my evolving radical political convictions an who, according to her dossier, had passed VC and sense of moral dilemma at being a citizen of letters, had served 10 years of a 15 year sentence the American empire." . . . and the extreme youthfulness of many in- The trip to Hanoi changed all that for in the mates. There were 50 children from birth to 13 present essay she says: "What the Mongol hordes years of age. threaten is far less frightening than the damage Although team members observed no brutality, that Western, 'Faustian' man, with his idealism, they noted the fearful reaction of the inmates his magnificent art, his sense of intellectual ad- whenever prison appeared. All prisoners venture, his world-devouring energies for con- are oppressed by conditions of overcrowding. quest, has already done, and further threatens to

JULY 24, 1969 do. In Vietnam an unholy dialectic is at work, in that motivate the reformations of our time. Men which the big wasteful society dumps its garbage, differ, sometimes violently, on what should be its partly unemployable proletarian conscripts, its done and how it should be accomplished. But both poisons and its bombs upon a small, virtually de- conservatives and radicals are seeking goals of fenseless, frugal society whose citizens, those human well being. They differ in their evalua- fortunate enough to survive, then go about pick- tion of means, but agree in ultimate goals. Only ing up the debris, out of which they fashion ma- the lunatic fringe at either end of the spectrum terials for daily use and self-defense." are lacking in good intent, and the power of such people is never durable. The trick is to be able to support the right as you see it, but to remember that your adversary is not totally evil, and that God is the final de- The Old Within the New terminer of destiny through his upward call in the By Alfred B. Starratt hearts of all men.

publication. of Emmanuel Church, Baltimore and I REMEMBER a Sunday School teacher in my childhood who loved to recite pious and moralistic reuse Everybody Does It

for poetry for the benefit of her pupils. One of the poems she often used began with the lines: By Ruth E. Harris "Every day is a new beginning. Every morn is Family Life Specialist, University of Florida required the world made new. You who are tired of sorrow WHEN JOHNNY was six years old he was with and sinning, here is a wonderful thought for you." his father when they were caught speeding. His I don't know why those lines got stuck in my father handed the officer a five dollar bill with his Permission memory. Certainly not because they were so very driver's license. "It's ok, son," his father said as pertinent to the experience of ten year old chil- they drove off. "Everybody does it."

DFMS. dren. Whatever forms of sinning we had tried

/ When he was eight he was permitted at a fami- at that age were not enough to make us grow ly council presided over by Uncle George, on the weary of bad behavior. Neither were our sorrows surest means to shave points off the income tax Church the kind that remain as a dull weight in the heart. return. "It's ok, kid," said his uncle. "Every- Perhaps it was that magical thought of brand new body does it." possibilities every time you waken from sleep that When he was nine, his mother took him to his Episcopal made the lines stick. For that is the way it is with first theater production. The box office man the the young. The new is always fascinating and of couldn't find any seats until his mother discovered the hope of change lends zest to the adventure of an extra two dollars in her purse. "It's ok, son," living. she said. "Everybody does it." Archives With the passing years, however, I have learned When he was twelve, he broke his glasses on the way to school. His Aunt Francine persuaded 2020. that process is continuous and there are no abso- lutely new beginnings. Personal transformation the insurance company that they had been stolen is a matter of growth like the growth of a tree. and they collected $27. "It's ok, kid," she said. "Everybody does it." Copyright New branches do not burst forth in thin air. They stem from the same old trunk and roots even When he was 15, he made right guard on the though they are a real differentiation of the tree's high school football team. His coach showed him life and form. What we shall be develops from how to block, and at the same time grab the op- what we are, and it is foolish to expect to become posing end by the shirt so the couldn't see a different person all at once by a act of it. "It's ok, kid," the coach said. "Everybody does will some early morning. it." When he was 16, he took his first summer job This awareness of continuity within change ap- at the big market. His assignment was to put plies to areas beyond the growth of individual overripe tomatoes in the bottom of the boxes and character. Those who are disturbed by the in- the good ones on the top where they would show. creased speed of change in all aspects of our pres- "It's ok, kid," the manager said. "Everybody ent culture can find some feeling of reassurance does it." through sensitivity to the enduring human values When he was 18, Johnny and a neighbor ap- Bight plied for a college scholarship. Johnny was a marginal student. His neighbor was in the upper Athletes and Saints 3% of his class but he couldn't play right guard. By Derald W. Stump Johnny got the scholarship. "It's ok", they told him. "Everybody does it." Episcopal Chaplain at Perm State When he was 19, he was approached by an TED WILLIAMS life story has just been pub- upper classman who offered the test answers for lished. While reading a review of My Turn at Bat three dollars. "It's ok, kid," he said. "Everybody I was remined of a comment recently attributed does it." to former Chief Justice Warren. According to Johnny was caught and sent home in disgrace. this report, Warren always reads the sports page "How could you do this to your mother and me?" first because it records the accomplishments of his father said. "You never learned anything like man, whereas, the daily news on the front page this at home." His aunt and uncle also were so often recounts man's failures. shocked. Personally I enjoy tennis, swimming and watch- If there's one thing the adult world can't stand, ing Penn State football; however, I have never publication. it's a kid who cheats. been an avid sports page reader. Chief Justice and Warren has said something worth pondering. The human spirit and aspiration are closely linked to reuse "what it takes" to excel at athletics. No less than for St. Paul compared the spiritual life to a race. It Works of a Loose Tongue is always a temptation to avoid discipline and required By Benjamin Minifie choose to relax. Self-restraint is a characteristic of both saints and athletes. Rector of Grace Church, New York I hope you will forgive a personal illustration.

Permission WE ARE ALL tempted by it: to gossip, to pass I grew up in a small town in Iowa that had but one on rumors and stories about another, especially claim to fame, . Perhaps some have tidbits of a shocking or scandalous kind. They DFMS. already forgotten, or are too young to remember, / may or may not be true. Usually they are exag- the famous "Rapid Robert" and his fireball pitch- gerated or distorted, but, no matter, we enjoy tell- ing for the Indians during the late

Church ing them. "Have you heard?" we say, and then thirties and forties. Bob used to come home at we're off. least once a year to visit his folks and attend the The tale is told of a villager whose punishment Bob Feller day celebration. The little town of less Episcopal for circulating half truths and false reports about than a thousand grew to a teeming city of ten or the fifteen thousand on that day. of his neighbors was to carry three big bags full of small feathers through the streets, and to scatter In the morning there were speeches and carni- the feathers abroad as he went his way. On the

Archives val rides. There was a baseball game in the second day he was to report back to the judge afternoon featuring the hometown team with Bob with the empty bags.

2020. pitching against a team from an adjacent village. The first day's assignment was easy enough, Bob usually brought along a fellow for the although the guilty one felt silly strewing feathers other team. Don Black came once and another

Copyright up and down the familiar streets of the village. time I think it was Bob Lemon. But the second day's charge was virtually impos- Of course the high point of each celebration was sible. For he was told he must now pick and when Bob autographed baseballs we had shagged gather up every feather he had let loose the day during the game or had purchased for the occa- before. By nightfall he had recovered only a few sion. I recall that he let a small group of us feel handfuls. Of course the feathers had scattered his pitching arm after a game — that none of us everywhere. They were dispersed well beyond the will ever forget! village borders. They were impossible to retrieve. So it is with gossip and the works of a loose Bob Feller was a household name in our little tongue. Once we put something hurtful about our town, but he was more than that, he was an in- neighbors into circulation it is abroad in all the spiration and example of what the average fellow world. It is beyond our control. could become, with hard work and self-discipline.

JOLT 24, 1969 MM In short he showed us the grace of achievement. "hell" be to the inner stream of an existence that The lore surrounding the hours of practice pitch- has been fed by heroic example? ing to his dad, who had a perpetually sore left There were other wonderful people in that tiny hand, or at a horse halter nailed to the side of the town, about whom I could write similar things, barn, became local myth. The boys of our little but lets leave it with Bob. Many of us will always town knew that the hell our world was going know that life is worthwhile, because of athletes through from 1939 to 1945 and beyond was not and saints, who have dared to dream impossible the only reality in life. In fact, how ultimate can dreams.

Democracy. It was in this capaci- will teach the techniques of non- ty that he chaired a mass meeting violence as a means of changing in Cleveland in 1940, sponsored by the world. Already a playwright, - - People - - the United Council for Democracy, musician, teacher, writer andavant an ecumenical group consisting of garde thinker, he is to become co- publication. eight church organizations. The ordinator of the London school of BEVERLEY D. TUCKER, bishop of meeting was attended by an over- non-violence. In this post he will and from 1938 until his retire- flow crowd of 1200, with Bishop succeed Satish Kumar, a young ment in 1952, died July 4, age 87. Francis McConnell of the Meth- Hindu member of the India-based He was rector of St. Paul's, Rich- reuse odist Church; Prof. Harry F. Ward Gandhi's peace army, who founded mond, Va. for 15 years before his for of Union Seminay and J. Warren the school in January. Kumar is . He was a pioneer in Madden, chairman at the time of returning to India after working the unity movement and received the national labor relations board, in London for a year. Details of a metal for this from the R.C. bish- the speakers. the appointment and the work of required op of Steubenville in 1963. He also the school were given by a spokes- was active in social action organi- COLIN HODGETTS, curate at St man of the Martin Luther King zations, serving many years as an Martin-in-the-Fields, London, has foundation. He said the appoint- officer of the Church League for been named head of a school that ment was an outcome of a weekend

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DFMS. violence as a means of changing / them. That symposium was spon- sored by the foundation whose chairman is Canon L. John Collins, Church she precentor of St. Paul's Cathedral. Collins, a pacifist, is also chairman of Christian Action, which was founded in 1946 to stimulate Chris- Episcopal can't tians and all men of goodwill to the action in public affairs. of learn JOHN PELHAM, rector of Trinity, all about God in School Farmington, Mich., has been named Wneie will she learn? In church. assistant professor of field educa- Archives And in the home. tion at Colgate Rochester Divinity School/Bexley Hall, effective Au- What are you doing in your

2020. gust 1. Prior to his rectorship he home to teach your child was director of the division of so- about God? Daily devotions, cial relations of the Michigan di- such as are found in The ocese, and a member of the agenda Upper Room, will help you Copyright committee for GC II. He is a for- and your family learn more mer national president of the Epis- about God. Thousands of families copal Society for Cultural and h, vi • found this to be true. Racial Unity and is presently a SPECIAL FEATURE — member of the executive committee. Meditations by educators, stu- WILLIAM TESKA, a chaplain who dents, lawyers, doctors make up works with hippies and other stu- the September-October issue. dents of the West Bank, Univer- Write for a free sample Copy. sity of Minnesota area, was or- dained at an outdoor service in the midst of his "parish" by Bishop THE UPPER ROOM Philip F. McNairy. A motorcade The World's Most Widely Read Daily starting at the Episcopal student Devotional Guide, 1908 Grand Ave., center took Teska and participat- Nashville, Tenn. 37203 ing clergy to the park, with police escort and about 20 motorcyclists. The Bishop and clergy vested for the procession while the Yale Rus-

Ten TBS WITNESS sian chorus from New Haven, sang They then sang "Nobody Vietnam . . . We have come . . . the introductory psalm 104. Teska who directed this chorus, is a grad- Knows the Trouble I've Seen" as prophets of protest." uate of Dartmouth and Berkeley Di- and "No More Hunger." Aber- A mass meeting was held at vinity School. There was broad nathy and the Rev. Hosea Wil- St. Paul's Baptist church, Coco, media coverage, especially by the liams, an aide, then addressed four local television stations and on the night of July 15. several radio stations and tape re- the poor and the press. cordings of the service were used "On the eve of one of man's NO CONSENSUS for several days afterwards. "It noblest ventures," said Aber- ON MANIFESTO was one of the most creative church nathy, "I am profoundly moved services ever conducted in this *The executive committee of area", said one participant, "with by our space program and the broad community and ecumenical heroics of the three men em- the NCC failed to reach a con- participation." barking for the moon. I pray sensus on its response to the that they have a safe return to black manifesto during an all- ALDEN D. KELLEY retired July day session July 14. Continued 1, 1969 as a member of the faculty earth. I have not come to Cape of Bexley Hall, Rochester, N. Y. Kennedy for the thrill of seeing study of the issue by a special He continues as canon to the ordi- the flight but to protest the gulf committee of 16 was voted. The nary of the diocese of Southern group made a report to the publication. Ohio and as chairman of the com- between America's technological accomplishment and its help to executive unit but its contents

and mittee for the continuing education of the clergy. the poor. were not disclosed. Appearing at the meeting as reuse STANLEY H. ATKINS, archdeacon "The very scene of these poor guests were black churchmen for of Milwaukee, will be consecrated bishop coadjutor of Eau Claire at is a rebuke for the moral fail- and James Forman, spokesman the cathedral there, August 2. ures of this nation. America, for the group, which issued the Bishop Horstick, diocesan of Eau manifesto. required we are not going to let you fail Claire, will be and Involved in the discussions Bishops Hallock of Milwaukee and anymore. Brady of Fond du Lac the co-con- are demands that the NCC secrators. "Anyone with any sense can executive panel recognize the

Permission see that when people can spend group as representative of black $30 billion to put two human ABERNATHY AND POOR concerns and take steps to beings on the moon and refuse provide $270,000 to launch DFMS.

/ PROTEST MOON SHOT to vote funds to support . . . the organization's administra- human beings on earth ... we tion and field services. • The Rev. Ralph Abernathy, have failed." Church president of the Southern Chris- The meeting had been ex- tian Leadership Conference, led "A nation which will not put pected to produce more concrete results. At the end of the day, seven busloads of poor from 25 as much to preserve life here is

Episcopal sick unto death," he said. "We the group was authorized to southern congressional districts continue its consultations. the are here to protest and demon- in a protest against U.S. ex- of strate that what the nation can On the following day, R. H. penditures in space on the eve do for space and exploration we Edwin Espy, NCC general sec- of the Apollo 11 moon shot. must do for starving people. retary, told the staff that the Archives The poor families arrived the America does not have any plan special group would meet again night before, as did Aber- to end poverty. We have a dis- on July 21 and that the execu- 2020. nathy, recently released from a torted sense of national priori- tive committee would be recon- Charleston, S. C, jail after being ties. The starvation of 10 mil- vened either Aug. 28 or 29 to arrested during demonstrations lion Americans challenges us all. continue the discussion. Copyright in support of striking hospital "Slums, disease and racial in- workers. justice must be fought with the On July 15 he addressed news- kind of massive thought and re- The Prayer Book men before a full scale model of sources now being wasted on the LEM in which two astron- space and the godless war in ITS HISTORY auts will set down on the moon. AND PURPOSE As he spoke, the poor arrived Irving P. Johnson holding placards which read: Write us for "Nixon, when will you launch The late Bishop of Colorado lunch? Rockets or rickets? and founder of The Witness People of the ghettos demand Organ Information 25c a copy $2 for ten space to live . . . Everything AUSTIN ORGANS, Inc. THE WITNESS would be a-ok if children had Hartford, Conn. three meals a day." Tunkhannock, Pa. 18667 Schools of the Church

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