V i The Witnei s Vol. VI. No. 5. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, SEPTEMBER 24, 1921 ^S1.50_AYEAH The Brotherhood Convention English Churches W t o Completes Program Fight Drink Evil

Prominent Speakers to Lead in Vital Discussions Large Sum Which Was Wasted Last Year on When Churchmen Meet at Norfolk Liquor Arouses Christian People to Action

By George Herbert Randall The churches of England,, .particularly AN IMPORTANT NOTICE Anglican and Wesleyan, are increasing their efforts to combat the drink evil. The The Brotherhood Convention will be need is great and urgent. Last year in held at Norfolk, Va., during the five days, For the past year THE WITNESS Britain the appalling sum of 469,000,000 Wednesday to Sunday, October 12th to has been under new management. It pounds was spent on liquor. Convictions 16th. Its program, after many vicissi­ has been our aim, first, to get out a for drunkenness in England and Wales tudes, is now complete. Its setting— wide awake, attractive little paper. (excluding Scotland) numbered 95,763. churches, halls, conference rooms—is all We have also gone to great pains to These are more than in the previous year, arranged for. Some of the strongest men see that our mailing lists are kept in but fewer than before the war, and the of the Church will take part, and there will good condition and that the paper is figures for the first half of 1921 show an be some voices never before heard at a mailed from Chicago early enough in improvement. But the drink bill steadily national Brotherhood gathering. the week to reach you by Saturday. rises from year to year. The increased The Convention divides itself naturally We mean that you shall receive your cost of wines, spirits and beer is partly re­ in a number of ways. There is first and paper regularly, in good condition, sponsible for last year’s record expendi­ foremost the central Corporate Commis­ and never later than Saturday. We ture. The anti-drink organizations in the sion; for this Bishop Tucker of the Dio­ want your enthusiastic support. We churches, having formed a National Tem­ cese of Southern Virginia will be1“the cele­ can deserve it only, by giving you perance Council, representing fourteen de­ brant. Next in spiritual importance will business-like service. The Managing nominations, have now a united program. be the Preparation Service, led this year Editor will appreciate a note from The main plank is local option—localities by the Rev. G. Ashton Oldman of St. Ann’s anyone who feels he is not getting it. to vote for No Change, Reduction, or No Church, Brooklyn. The morning Quiet License. Long-sustained pressure upon Hours, with the Bible as the central cial steamer will take the party up the the government resulted in a round table thought, will be conducted by the Rev. James River to Jamestown Island, where conference whose conclusions formed the Dr. W. H. Griffith Thomas, a recent and Bishop Tucker will make a brief historical basis of the licensing act just passed. Tem­ strong accession to the Church in the address,, and following this at Williams­ perance reformers agreed to accept this as States, and who has come from Canada. burg, eight miles inland, Dr. Goodwin will an interim measure. Perpetuating some An interesting and profitable evening will speak at the luncheon at the College of of the salutary restrictions of the Central be devoted to the Convention Missionary William and Mary, and the Rev. E. Ruffin Control Board, set up early in the war, Service, with Bishop Overs of Liberia and Jones in Old Briton Church. Automobiles the new act represents a substantial ad­ Dean Berryman Green of the Virginia will carry the large party to Newport vance on previous legislation. The hours Theological Seminary as speakers; while News, 27 miles, where the special steamer of opening public-houses have been re­ the Call to the Ministry will again be will again take them on board for the sail duced on week-days to nine in London and sounded, this time by Bishop Guerry of across Hampton Roads in season for sup­ eight outside the metropolis, and on Sun­ South Carolina and the Rev. Dr. Hubert per and the night meeting in Norfolk. days to five; they must not open before Carleton, for many years as a layman the Because of the arrangement of railroad 11 a. m. and must close for two hours in General Secretary of the American and steamboat timetables, the final service the afternoon. Total Sunday closing pre­ Brotherhood. of the Convention will be held Sunday vails in Wales and Monmouthshire. Tem­ perance members of parliament unsuccess­ Unusual prominence will this year be afternoon. It will comprise the reading of tbe Memorial Roll and the Charge to fully fought the clause authorizing restau­ given the general conferences in Conven­ rants to serve liquor with meals up to half tion Hall. The Rev. Dr. W. A. Goodwin the Convention. The only other general assemblage of the Convention that day will an hour after midnight. The chief defect of Rochester will speak to the topic, The of the act is that it does not embody the Teaching Mission of the Church as a Chal­ be the annual Corporate Celebration of the Holy Colnmunion. principle of local option, and the temper­ lenge to a Life of Devotion and Service, ance forces will not be satisfied until this while the important subject of Family Most of these main services will be held method becomes the law in England and Prayer will be led by the Rev. Dr. E. L. in Christ Church, one of the most beauti­ Wales, as it already is in Scotland. Woodward of the Virginia Board of Re­ ful church buildings in America. The main ligious Education. Convention Hall will be in the Ghent Club, Plan Big School Saturday will find the delegates contin­ a near neighbor to Christ Church. As in B uilding uing to discuss the time-honored features other recent years the bçys of the Brother­ of the Brotherhood’s work, and on this hood—and the Church—'will have their Plans for the erection of a Sunday day’s program an outstanding event will parallel Convention in the splendid audi­ School building with a capacity for 200 be the address of Bishop Davenport of the torium of Christ Church parish house. pupils, and for various alterations within Diocese of Easton on our work among Canon Skey of Toronto will be their spirit­ the church, have been made by the vestry seamen. ual leader, while the general engineering of St. James’ Church, Macon, Georgia. To Recreational periods will have a pur­ of the Junior Convention will be in the afford a more spacious interior it is pro­ pose, all of the daylight hours of Friday hands of Francis A. Williams, formerly posed to enlarge the chancel and to erect being given to the Convention Pilgrimage Secretary of the Brotherhood in Canada, a recess altar. Work on the building will to Jamestown and Williamsburg. A spe­ now on the American staff, begin a t once, Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. 2 THE WITNESS GENERAL NEWS OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH Island to take care of the Church of the Minnequa Hospital in Pueblo. He has re­ Two Missionaries signed his parish to take effect Dec. 1st. Start on Their Journey Ascension, Bloomfield; Rev. Paul Roberts $ # * One of the most impressive missionary of Holy Trinity, West Orange, has accepted services ever held by the Episcopal Church a call to the Cathedral at ' Boise, Idaho ; The Rev. R. P. Eubanks, in charge of in Detroit took place last Thursday morn­ Rev. James H. S. Fair of Bernardville has Montrose and adjacent missions, has ac­ cepted a call to Cairo, Diocese of Albany. ing in St. Paul’s Cathedral, when Miss acepted a call to a School Chaplaincy and H* Hs H* Frances C. 'Sullivan, a communicant of St. a rectorship in Rhode Island: Rev. Dr. Fleming James of Englewood has accepted The Rev. . A. McNulty, formerly of St. Joseph’s church Detroit, and Miss Mar­ Mary’s Church in the Bronx, has accepted guerite J. Schaad of Trinity church, Bay a professorship at Berkeley Divinity School; the cure at Alamosa and will go into resi­ Rev. 0. W. Leslie of Jersey City has taken City, were speeded on their way to mis­ dence about Oct. 1st. sionary service in China. work in the Newark City Mission, with ^ H! Hi The service was arranged by the arch­ charge of Christ Church, Newark; Rev. Dean Browne, who expected to begin his deacon of Detroit, the Rev. H. K. Bartow, Donald Wonders, for some years an assist­ work at the Cathedral last July, has been who preached the sermon. The holy com­ ant at Trinity Cathedral, Newark, has ac­ hindered by illness, but is well-enough to munion was celebrated by the Rev. J. A. cepted a call to the Diocese of Pennsyl­ begin his work on Sept. 11th. He will he Schaad, rector of Trinity Church, Bay City, vania; Rev. Charles S. Armstrong, some­ instituted as Dean by Bishop Johnson on and father of Miss Schadd. time a curate at St. Paul’s, Patterson, has the first Sunday in October. For the last two years Miss Sullivan, taken charge of St. Mathew’s Church, $ Hi Hi • who is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. P. Rev. A. P. Knell has removed from east St. John’s College, Greeley, a theological j Sullivan, 306 Holbrook avenue has been Rutherford to have charge of St. John’s, school, under the supervision of Dean j on the staff of the Rt. Rev. Chas D. Wil­ Hasbrouck Heights. Bon ell, will open on Sept. 20th with about I liams, bishop of Michigan. During the fifteen candidates for Holy Orders, several | general convention of the church held in One Hundred of whom have been ordered to Colorado i Detroit two years ago, Miss Sullivan be­ ears Ago because of pulmonary weakness developed | came interested in the Chinese misión field. One hundred years ago, a gifted man with vision and faith addressed the First during the war. This school is especially I She will be secretary to Bishop Frederick helpful to such men who are not seriously 1 R. Graves of Shanghai. She will live in Triennial Meeting of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Church, ill but who are threatened with pulmonary I the compound of St. John’s university, near trouble. which is located the general offices for the which convened in St. Paul’s, Philadelphia. Looking forward, even beyond the Centen- It is remarkable how robust some men I whole work of the Protestant Epicopal who were delicate when they entered the | nary of the Society ;which we. are to cele­ school become in the course of their train- I church in China, including the dioceses of brate this year, Bishop William White said Hankow, Anking and Shanghai. ing. on this occasion (the date, May 20, 1823) : This is the only Theological School in I Miss Schaad will go to Anking as secre­ “While nothing is to be expected with­ tary to the bishop, the Rt. Rev. D. T. Hunt­ out the beginning and the continuing of the Rocky Mountain district, and if it can I ington. be adequately financed ought to do a good our endeavors with zeal worthy of the work in training men J;o be missionaries Both young ladies left Detroit Thursday cause, under the guidance of the Gospel of evening for Vancouver, B. C., whence they Truth we may trust, for the issue, on the in this district. will sail Sept. 15 on the Empress of Russia. * * Ht promises of God in Scripture ; assuredly be­ For the coming year Bishop Ingley will | They will be members of a large party of lieving that as the rains and thè snows of missionaries who are embarking for Japan have charge of the northern half of the j Heaven, not returning from the Hand Diocese, including Denver, and Bishop | and China for work under the Epicopal which sheds them from the clouds, so shall church. Johnson will have charge of the southern f be the irrevocable Word that has gone and western portions, including Pueblo. I All the clergy of the diocese were invited forth from the Great Conductor alike of to attend the service Thursday morning and nature and grace. It ‘shall not return unto He also expects to give considerable time | appeared in the procession wearing their him void,’ but shall progress in the course to the work of the nation-wide Preaching f vestments. The organist of the cathedral, Mission, as he is chairman of the commit- j of natural'causes; overruled to the accom­ tee appointed by the Presiding Bishop to j Francis Mackey invited members of choirs plishment of his will in the spreading of throughout the city to be present and form the glad tidings of salvation; until, as an­ consider, that subject. a volunteer choir for the service. Com­ nounced by our Savior in person—‘His The Rev. J. F. McCloud, rector of St. I municants of the church from all over the Gospel shall be preached among all nations, James’ Church, who has heretofore I diocese, as well as the general public at­ and then shall the end come.’ ” preached one Sunday out of the month at j tended the service in large numbers. The words are not less a trumpet call St. Andrew’s Church, Fort Valley, Georgia, I to service now than when they were de­ will now devote his whole time to his j livered almost one hundred years ago. Are You Going # parish in Macon, Georgia. to Pittsburgh Meeting of the Province The Board of Religious Education of the Secretaries, of the Northwest Do Your Duty , Diocese of Pittsburgh is endeavoring, The Synod of the Northwest Province is Alexandria, La., through its Committee on schools and to meet in Denver Sept. 25-28. Before the Sept, 8th, 1921. Colleges, to bring in touch with the clergy meeting of the Synod there will be a meet­ the students and teachers from elsewhere The attention of the Secretaries “of every ing of the Bishops in the Province from Diocese, Misionary District and the Con­ who are coming to the Diocese to live and Sept. 20 to 22, inclusive, and a meeting work in the various institutions of learn­ vocation of American Churches in Europe” of the Provincial Presiding Bishop and is respectfully called to Canon 50, *IV, (ii)> ing. Will any of the clergy who have Council on Sept. 23 and 24. friends and parishioners coming to the Di­ requiring their transmission “on or be­ These meetings will be held in the Dean fore Sept. 1st, in each and every year,” to ocese of Pittsburgh help render this service Hart Memorial House at Evergreen, a the Recorder of General Convention of the by writing to the chairman of Schools and mountain village about 25 miles west of names of the Clergy and Deoconesses as Colleges, 317 Jenkins Building, giving Denver. stated in said Canon. names and addresses. It is expected that Bishop Gailor will be On Feb. 10th, I was appointed by the Rt. present at the meeting of the Synod and Rev. D. S. Tuttle, D. D., LL. D., D C. L., Changes in the relation of the Province to the Pre­ Presiding Bishop of the Church to that Diocese of Newark siding Bishop and Council will be the main Several changes among the clergy in the topic for discussion. office, made vacant by the death of Rev. Diocese of Newark are to be recorded. The Herman C. Duncan, S. T. D., (who had' been Recorder since 1885), and only the The Rev. Addison T. Doughty from West­ Notes from the ern New York has taken charge of St. Al­ Diocese of Colorado Journal« of the Canal Zone, Louisiana, New I ban’s and St. George’s, Newark; the Rev. The Rev.' Gilbert A. Ottmàn, rector of Jersey and Springfield have been received, j Benjamin C. De Camp has come from Long Trinity Church, Trinidad, is very ill at the The importance of keeping these Re- Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. THE WITNESS 3

cords as required by the Church needs no Give Their Skin emphasis, and the attention of all Secre­ to the Church Confirmation Instructions taries to the Canon of the General Con­ Miss Eleanor J. Ridgeway, who is serv­ vention is earnestly requested. ing at St. John’s in the Wilderness, Allaka- By BISHOP JOHNSON Faithfully and fraternally, ket, the most remote of our interior sta­ 25c a Copy. $2.50 a Dozen W. S. Slack, tion in Alaska, writes: THE WITNESS PUBLISHING CO. 221 Winn St., “On the fourth of July at the service I 6219 Cottage Grove Ave., Chicago , Alexandria, La. In R egard had an offering taken for the Archdeacon to D ivorce Stuck Memorial Fund, and I enclose a To the Editor of the Witness: draft for $41.50. The offering was a novel one in that $26.50 of it was cash Allow me to call the attention of your GOLDEN readers, especially the members of wo­ and there were twenty-two muskrat skins. These I took to the trader and he helped SACRED LILY men’s clubs and societies, to a strong appeal PURITY to women on the divorce question, to a towards the offerings by giving us $2.25 FREESIA strong appeal in Good Housekeeping, “A more than the value of the skins. May I S Tulips, in* say to the credit of our native people that eluding Darwin, Parrot New Crusade.” The author is Judge of and Mayflowering; Giant s the Probate Court of Boston where he has among the twenty-two skins given there 1 Crocus and Poet’s Narcissus. had a large experience in alimony, which was but one poor one, On June 26th at ! 10 large bulbs is declared -by Judge Morschauser of the the Morning Service I asked them to be Mailed for 25 cts. Supreme Court of New York to be one of prepared on that day to give the offering. ]Beautiful and complete Catalogue After the service the people said that some Free. Shows great variety of Bulbs, the chief roots of the evil. The plea of Hardy Perennials, Window Plants, Judge Grant is for uniform Federal legis­ did not have the cash and would it be all Seeds, Berries, Fruits, etc. lation, which necessarily implies an amend­ right to give the skins? They said that John Lew is Childs. Inc., Floral Parlc,N. V < ment to the Constitution. the Archdeacon had always been their Hitherto the chief objection to uniform friend and they honored him and wished laws, such as we have in business contracts to give to the fund.” Booklet This offering has been added to the fund and many other national affairs, has been, Por Christian investors. You as the author says, “deepseated, difficulties. for the endowment of St Stephen’s hospital, receive regular, generous, non^ But the Edmonds bill for an amendme- Fort Yukon, in memory of the late Arch­ taxable life income. Your money deacon Stuck. Of the $25,000 asked for helps a Christian enterprise. to the Constitution meets in an admirably /isle for Booklet 37 American Bible Society simple way the worst of these, namely the this purpose, there has so far been received 25 Bible House, Astor F Lacet New York• fear of such States as South Carolina and $2,652.24. With the exception of two or New York that their standard should be three gifts from friends in this country lowered; South Carolina granting only ju­ who have not waited for a formal announc- dicial separation without right of remar­ ment that gifts would be received, every- riage, and New York confining that right think given so far come from the Arch­ to adultery as the ground of the action. deacon’s white and Indian griends in Alas­ The judge seems to be unaware of5 the Ed­ ka. The last $1,000 has been promised by monds bill;'but the proposed amendment a member of the Church in Virginia. has this as a proviso, namely that, while Bishop’s Secretary Congress shall have power to establish a maximum of causes for absolute divorce, Has Accident every 'State may reduce (but not increase) Miss Lucy Taylor, the efficient secretary that maximum, as in the case of South of Bishop Thomas, and the faithful corre­ Carolina to no cause whatever, and to New spondent for The Witness from Wy­ York to only one. oming, met with an accident recently The way for this bill has been already while cranking one of the missionary Fords. blazed by the work of various State Com­ She was injured by being pinned between missions on the uniformity. It only re­ the car and the wall of the Bishop’s mains now to bring the power of public garage, when the missionary vehicle, with­ opinion to bear on Congress to apply this out any warning, suddenly manifested an remedy to the most imminent danger that earnestness of purpose, which in its fu­ threatens today the very life of the nation. ture work will be very commendable, but It is to urge sane Americans, especially which on this occasion was painfully in­ members of women’s clubs, to stir up in­ appropriate. Miss Taylor is in the hos­ terest and take up definite measures to this pital with a badly damaged hip, daily end, that Judge Grant has written his hoping, as she expressed it, “to be pro­ paper. He begins by calling attention to moted to crutches.” the fact that the average rate of divorces to marriages in the United States in 1916 was to one to nine. But this is really and understatement of the case for that year, ALTAR FURNISHINGS Nevada had one divorce to 1.54 marriages; Of Brass or Bronze Oregon one to 2.51; Washington one to 4.0-; while ,New Hampshire leads the east CANDLE STICKS AND BRANCHES with one to 6.40. ALTAR DESKS The first week in October the Association ALTAR AND PROCESSIONAL CROSSES for the Sanctity of Marriage will issue its SANCTUARY LAMPS next Bulletin on “The Cruelty of Divorce CHALICES AND CIBORIA Legislation” which is now in type. It hopes of Sterling Silver also to print the admirabley practical ar­ HONOR AND MEMORIAL TABLETS ticle by Bishop Moreland on “Five Divorce Of Brass, Bronze or Marble Remedies,” which lately appeared in the STAINED GLASS New York Times, but funds are greatly meeded for this purpose. Checks should be MOSAIC PANELS FOR ALTAR OR BAPTISTRY • made payable to the Rev. Dr. Edwin A. SPAULDING & CO. White, Treas., and sent to me. Rev. 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4 THE WITHESE about which the child cares not a rap. Britain has been a great nation because He wants what he wants, now ! it has had mighty men who had a vision 0% U tiiu^tì of empire, and more than any other na­ Published every Saturday, $1.50 a year So men grasp for this and grab for that and when it is denied them they tion has it bad the fear of God. THE WITNESS PUBLISHING CO. curse and rave like a spoiled child, or Don’t . mistake this statement or con­ (Not Incorporated) 6219 Cottage Grove Ave. they grow sullen and unapproachable. fuse the issue. I am not saying that Telephone Midway 3935 “God gave me these appetites,” said Englishmen have been more virtuous CHICAGO, ILL a young man, “and he is to blame if I than other peoples. The one is not necessarily a corollary of the other. read' \ indulge in them.” counJ BOARD OF EDITORS: God gave you certain desires which Reverence for God like reverence for Bishop IRVING P. JOHNSON, Editor-in-Chief. not i Is REV. WI LX I AM B. SPOFFORD, Managing are perfectly good and you have centered parents is one thing and it has a tremen­ easil; E ditor. dous influence on the sons and daughters REV. JAMES SHEERIN, New York Editor. on this or that desire to the exclusion of ]owi$ REV. A. MANBY LLOYD, London Editor. its counter-balancing control, which God of its family life. tory, REV. J. A. SCHAAD, Contributing Editor. also gave you. Nothing is holier than the Personal morals is another thing, therai Entered as second class matter at the Post love of man for a woman and nothing equally important, but not at all the Office at Chicago, 111., under the Act of Congress same thing. They ought to go together us re > o f M arch 3, J8'9. more lovable than children, yet the per­ centcj version of this love, not only has de­ but do not do so necessarily. THE IMPOTENCY OF SELFISHNESS To) feated the purpose of the desire, but has National reverence for God and a be­ fore changed the child of God into a pervert. lief in Divine Providence will cause that for i \ B y B i s h o p J o h n s o n He then blames God for his own sel­ nation to have a big vision and to at­ The natural man is as self centered as fish perversion of a holy thing. tempt great things, even though indi­ minisi Geori a savage. He has thrown his life out of plum be­ vidually men do not live up to all that God demands of them. Everything revolves around his own cause he is disobedient to God’s will I do not know that the men who made interest. He thinks about his opinions, for him. England and the United States to be his success, his prowess, his business and Desire loses its beauty and fastens the great nations, were better men person­ his diseases. As a matter of fact he is bands of its own tyranny upon him. ally than the present leaders of parlia­ a drop in the ocean of life, but he will These men have turned the truth of ment and senate, but I do know that not admit it. He talks about his rights God into a lie, and worshipped and they were bigger men and that their and his injuries but is not keen about his served the creature more than the vision of national responsibility was not responsibilities and his own sins. Creator. Professing themselves to be wise, they so petty as it is now. He cultivates certain tastes and life become fools and God permitted them to And I know further that a self cen­ becomes a passion for the gratification reap the results of their own self-suf­ tered policy of selfish self-seeking is as of these appetites. ficiency. dangerous to the future of both nations It may be a thirst for whiskey or the But says the rebellious pervert, “God as red anarchy has been fatal to Russia. love of money or the desire for show. is all powerful and had no right to make It is impossible for little men to rule seemjl Whatever it is that obsesses him, he adequately a great nation. Foj me so weak that I could become a fool.” grew;' acts as though God had created the The doctrine of God’s omnipotence is a Better have leaders who have glaring or d | world in order that he might gratify his curious boomerang. personal faults and a big vision than lit­ to a own little soul, and the tragedy of his If we accept the doctrine, then we tle men of irreproachable habits and acterj life is that the more he gets, the more he should never resist His power; and if petty self centered policies. Thj craves. we do not accept the doctrine, then we They are the kind of people who were j Possession cannot keep pace with de­ have no right to claim it as an alibi. crucified Christ once and have crucified Griswi sire. He worships the creature which The omnipotence of God is governed his leadership ever since. I mean the kind of men who prate scrati. he fondly believes will satisfy him and by the omniscience of God and His omni­ giniaj he ends ^y being the slave of the crea­ science has so directed His omnipotence about duty when we are in danger and op Cl ture which he worships. that He wills to have children who love then exploit the nation ior their own » fai! He avoids God for it seems to him as Him by choice. personal aggrandisement when we are at sionai You so will. You would not have peace. òtti j though God, if indeed there is a God, thorit i exists to rob him of his heart’s desire. your child grow up to be an automatic There is nothing that has so nauseated me in our national history as that big Mid The selfish man is a spoiled child reflection of yourself. You deliberately to ciaf grown to man’s estate. allow him to mingle with the world in booming voice that proclaimed to Amer­ as a His Heavenly Father delights in set­ order that he may learn to overcome the ican youth the necessity of their sacri­ ting him tasks to do when he himself world. fice during the war; which has in both »181 knows what task lies before him. You would not permit him to grow up England and America trailed off into a For: in bovine ignorance of evil, even if whine about taxes and a policy of na­ He hasn’t time for God1 because God wort! is always taking the joy out of his life. you had the means to segregate him in tional isolation. Who is so small that * * ^ a monastic garden of virtue. Yet pos­ he cannot see that national isolation is a The self centered man does not be­ sibly your income would not admit it. policy of small potatoes from every lieve that, if. you seek the Kingdom of The truth is that we want to play the angle. God and His righteousness, all those game of life as it is because it is a good If Europe needed England and Amer­ things over which he is anxious, will be game and because it is quite possible to ica then, it needs it far more now, for added unto him. The self centered man overcome evil with good. it is desperately ill. Doan« is extremely childish in his attitude to­ If God’s Almighty power is a factor If this be true then my son and yours went into the war, not for the high- Convj ward His Father in Heaven. in the game which you admit when you everjj Your child comes in and asks for a are winning, then it cannot be a factor sounding principles which resounded an a! quarter, or wants to gratify a wish, or which you eliminate when you are losing. then, but for the small minded policies wants to go with certain companions, * * which are prevailing now. Thl and you, because you are his father, re­ The strength of a nation is just as It is a sad thing that when we need darei fuse. You are thinking of his future life great as the greatness of its ideals. Great (Continued on Page 8) Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. A Century of Preparation out waiting for dioceses to be formed to ask for them and elect them. The A Live Parish Magazine People are going to hear about the Mis­ bishops should create the dioceses. sionary Centennial and are almost certain They at once acted on this principle by By Rev. A. Manby Lloyd to ask us questions about it which will sending the Right Reverend Jackson Kem­ The old Anglican Parish Magazine was prove embarrassing if we do not . have at per, consecrated during the sessions of the Convention, to be missionary bishop of an appalling thing. There was the goody- tongue’s end a{ least the salient points of Missouri and Indiana. In 1838 they sent goody sermon; the silly serial, where the the century’s work. Here is a chance for Leonidas Polk to be missionary bishop of curate’s love for the squire’s daughter was readers of The Witness to give a good ac­ Arkansas, and in 1844, the William Jones foiled by a wicked sister who played .the count of themselves. In brief space it is Boone, the elder, to be the first foreign piano on Sundays. There were cookery not possible to give more details than can missionary bishop to China. Three more notes, Scripture puzzles, and “shop” of easily be read and remembered. The fol­ great names to remember. the dullest kind. lowing is not more than an “outline of his­ Two committees, “domestic” and “for­ That was called the “inside.” The “out­ tory,” but may serve to call attention to side” contained the Vicar’s letter, an­ past events which, as we learn more about eign,” carried on the work of management and direction. For a number of years, nouncing that new hassocks would be them, will do much to wake us up and make placed in the Church before Lent. Here us realize the opportunity that lies in the differences in policy, the Civil War, the separation of domestic and foreign inter­ and there a personality could make it in­ century ahead of us. teresting, but for the most part it gave To begin with, for nearly a century be­ ests, had a divisive effect on the work as a whole, but fundemental earnestness on both the impression that religion was complete fore the Revolution, the English “Society boredom. for the Propagation of the Gospel in For­ sides led eventually to better ways and eign Parts” sent many English clergy to means. Of recent years there has been vast minister to the colonists from Vermont to Dr. Twig, secretary of the domestic mis­ improvement; but the best magazines are Georgia, and expended about one million sions committee in 1866, is a man of this local ventures, made up of red-hot copy, dollars. Then came the Revolutionary period to remember for his stimulating and they sell like hot-cakes. There is one, War, which left the Church seriously weak­ and reconciling work. however, that is without a rival, edited ened and depleted, but as the former colo­ The Woman’s Auxiliary was formed in by our enterprising brother, “Diqk” Shep­ nies were united into nation so the church 1871. Its story should be read in detail pard; it has a circulation of over 3000 in the various states became one national by every Church woman in this, their Ju­ monthly and it sells for 15 cents. It is Church. Its constitution was adopted in bilee year. . called the St. Martin-in-the-Fields Review, 1785. The interest of children in the Church’s and anyone wishing to see a specimen copy Remember three names—Bishop Sea- mission was organized from 1877 and on­ can have a back number for 20 cents bury, consecrated Bishop of Connecticut in ward. The growth of the children’s Lent­ (stamps taken). Address: 151 Learn 1784; Bishop Provost of New York and en offering from its 'beginning in the little Terrace, Leamington Spa. Each number Bishop White of Pennsylvania, in 1787. Church school in Pennsylvania, of which contains about 50 pages of first class mat­ “The great work of establishing a single John W. Marston, Jr., was superintendent- ter, and some of the contributors are fa­ and united national Church could hardly in 1877, with an offering of $200, to the mous. A few specimen make-ups will! have been accomplished but for the gra­ offering of children from all over the world speaks for themselves. Take March, 1920: cious personality, tireless patience and far- some forty years later, amounting to nearly The Poor Man’s God, by Jas. Adderley. seeing statesmanship of Bishop White.” four million dollars, is one of the most fas­ The God of Fellowship, by F. R. Barry. For the next thirty-five years the Church cinating stories of the Centennial. The Crusaders, by Admiral Hopewood. grew in strength and numbers along state Further changes in organization at home Old Bill on Gawd, by Woodbine Willie or diocesan lines. The work was really occurred in 1877 when General Convention (the Rev. Studdert Kennedy). to a very large extent missionary in char­ appointed a Board of Missions to unite the acter. The Co-operative Character, by Dr. Da­ domestic and foreign committees and the vid (Headmaster of Rugby School). Three great men of this diocesan period domestic and foreign fields into one work, were Bishop Hobart of New York, Bishop which of course they really were. The Thresher’s Wife, by Lady Hy Som­ Griswold of the Eastern Diocese, which The splendid work of missionary bishops erset. comprised most of New England, both con- in the great West and North of our coun­ The Drink Question, by Canon Master- scratd in 1811, and Bishop Moore of Vir­ try as well as abroad has resulted, to put man. ginia, consecrated in 1814. A fourth, Bish­ it in one way, in many thrilling biographies Church Music Notes, Guild of Fellow­ op Chase of Ohio, consecrated in 1819, was for us to read. From Bishop Kemper to ship News, etc. in fact what would now be called a mis­ Bishop Tuttle and the other bishops of to­ Here is July, 1921: sionary bishop, although his work was with­ day there have been a hundred men whose in the bounds of diocesan methods and au­ The Confessions of a Modern Opium lives make wonderful reading. The work Eater, by Dr. Boquet. thority. among the Indians and the negroes aré long Missionary work as such did not appear The Will to Peace, by Robert Hichens and important chapters of the story. Learn (the novelist). to claim formal recognition by the Church at least the names of our heroes, to that as a whole until 1820. The Domestic and when some-one asks, “What is there in this A Lesson from History, by J. L. Ham-' Foreign Missionary Society was organized Centennial to be really proud about? he mond (Guild Socialist historian). in 1821. may be given a definite answer. Politics in the Pulpit, by one of the staff, For a noble and irretrievable moment the The latest developments in the ways and etc., etc. whole Church realized that its missionary means of carrying on the work are within Bernard Shaw, Stephen Leacock (the work must be done as a whole, that mis­ the memory of most readers. The Board Canadian humorist), Chesterton, Rev. W. sionary work could not be done independent­ of Missions under Bishop Lloyd worked J. Carey, Dr. Martin Shaw (Master of the ly by separate dioceses.” steadily forward toward a better and more Music), Dr. Inge, Maude Royden, Dr. In the society as then organized, how­ complete method of applying the whole ener­ Dearmer, Viscount Haldane (a famous ever, membership and the payment of dues gy of the church on the whole mission of the metaphysician), George A. Birmingham were purely voluntary, and little was oc- Church. With this aim, through the Gen­ (the novelist), Owen Seaman (of “Punch” complished for fifteen years, until in 1835, eral Convention of 1919 the Church unified fame), John Galsworthy (the playwright) guided chiefly by George Washington and co-ordinated the Boards of Missions are a few of the names which figure from Doane, Bishop of New Jersey, General and Religious Education and the Social time to time. Nothing that savors of me­ 'Convention “roused itself and declared that Service Commission, and authorized the diocrity is allowed between the covers of every baptized member of the Church was movement known as the Nation-Wide Cam­ this magazine. an active and responsible member of the paign. During the coal strike there were arti­ missionary society.” We are ready as never before to go into cles on the government’s position and the The General Convention of 1835 also de­ all the world and preach the Gospel to every miners’ position. The pros and cons were clared that the Church should send forth creature, if every Churchman will do hi fairly put. Every party (so called) in the missionary bishops into new regions with-* part. Church is allowed to have its say. The Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. t THE WITNESS

Catholics are allowed to explain the Old ous matter in this model magazine. I can time that an officious verger ordered me Testament and the Modernists to explain praise it the more sincerely, as the Mod­ out of St. Paul’s Cathedral when I pro- it away. Crusted old Tories appear side ernist view, which looms so large, is not posed to stay behind to a late celebration, by side with dangerous persons like Hi­ my view at all. but did not intend to communicate! laire Belloc and Canon Donaldson, the There are several pages of local news But the Rev. H. R. L. Sheppard (com­ little Leicester parson who led a hunger- and announcements under the heading of monly known as “Dick”) came along with march to London many years ago. Lord Matters Merely Parochial, in which his magic-wand of common sense and good Bryce shakes his fist at Frederic Harrison, Church services, lectures, etc,, are an­ humor—which are Charity writ large— who thinks the League of Nations is a nounced and for which the editor is re­ and now there are queues outside the wash-out, and the Rev. J. M. Crum gives sponsible. For the signed articles he ac­ Church which would not disgrace a thea­ an “Account of a Voyage or Discovery cepts no responsibility. ter; there are all kinds of local activities; which has not yet been made.” It begins I can remember St. Martin’s Church it is the life and soul of the Life and Lib­ like this: “Once open ^ time, long, long thirty years ago. It is situated on one erty Movement, and it is now proposed to ago, there was an Englishman, Mr. David side of that wonderful site, Trafalgar convert the Churchyard into a place of Live-and-Learn, by name, who wanted to real service to the neighborhood, with its be a missionary. Square. I once ventured inside, but as rapidly came out again. It was only open­ rostrum, its band-stand, its coffee-stall, “He wanted to tell the Heathens in their ed on Sundays, and gave one a funereal and other attractions. Twenty-five thou­ Blindness who had no Religion, that they impression—the Church of England in its sand dollars will be needed for this pur­ ought to have one. So he sailed away winding sheet. It was about the same pose. across the seas for seven weeks, taking his Religion with him to the Islands of the Heathens in their Blindness. “Now his religion was this: On one day in seven, at 11 o’clock, you unlocked a Church-door and you all went in and sat down in rows in pews, and remembered that you were in Church until 12:15. Nashotah House “During that solemn hour and a quar­ ter, several people were paid to wait on these Religious People. Some strong men were paid to ring bells, to remind them A Theological Seminary when the one-day-in-seven had come round again. And some melodious men and boys were paid to sing to them when Founded 1842 they stood in their places, and one man was paid to read to them out of very large books when they sat down. And then, for about 20 minutes, this man used to read something he had written himself, or to A three-year course covering all the requirements of talk out of his own head, and that was known by all to be the most solemn the canons on ordination, and an opportunity to special­ part of all their Religion. . . ize in certain subjects. “And all the boys of the village when they met the Man touched their caps very seriously to him, and all the girls of the village curtseyed very respectfully too, COLLEGIATE DEPARTMENT and what they liked about it all (the peo­ ple said) was that ‘it was so very Eng­ A three-year course for men who have not had college lish.’ ” And so this fascinating missionary story training and who desire to prepare to enter the Sem­ goes on, but when you learn that in the inary. hundredth week, Mr. Live-and-learn brought out seven silk hats and gave them to the seven best-behaved chiefs who had been taught to be the two Church wardens Beautifully located in the heart of the famous Wisconsin and the five sidesmen and promises, if Lake Region, with the seclusion conducive to study, they do their duty in the future as they "have done in the past, to have sent out prayer and worship, considered at Nashotah as integral from England shoes and waistcoats and watch chains and a pair of trousers each, parts of a man’s preparation for the sacred ministry. to match their silk hats—well, we begin to suspect that the author of this delightful Tuition, including room and board, in either school, satire is pulling our legs. And when the great chief places his silk $300.00 per year. Some scholarships available. Schools hat on the seat instead of under it, and his eldest son—how can I tell you?—his open on September 29th. eldest son sat—he meant no harm at all, poor boy—but he sat upon the chief’s silk hat . . . then we have no doubt Address all communications to the Dean at all that the author is pulling our legs. * * * But don’t imagine that this is mere flippancy. There is room for satire even The Rev.Benj.F.P.Ivins,M.A.,D.D. in a Church paper. Our author is not mak- R« v mg fun of religion, but of some ludicrous Cos caricatures of religion that have been Nashotah/ Wisconsin 2 8 known to exist and may still linger in i obscure regions. There is plenty of seri- Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. T H E WITNESS 7 1921

The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society is one hundred years old. Its representatives have proclaimed the Gospel at home and abroad for a century. Our founders in 1821 considered 1921. Let us consider 2021 ! We must carry on!

SUGGESTIONS FOR PARISH CELEBRATIONS PAGEANT—October 30th or during week following SUNDAY SCHOOL PROGRAMME October 30—Special Lessons November 6th—Platform Exercises INFORMATION MEN—Six addresses CENTENNIAL OFFERING—November 6th at special ser­ vice including celebration of Holy Communion with historical sermon*

By these celebrations we wish to bring to our people a new con­ ception of their stewardship, of the need of prayer and necessity for insuring the missionary spirit through the next century.

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Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. A THE WITNESS CHURCH SERVICES The Editorial CHURCH SCHOOLS BERKELEY DIVINITY (Continued from page 4) big men in the senate, we should have SCHOOL chiefly mere moneymakers. Middletown, Connecticut Address : And selfishness is so impotent. Rev. WILLIAM PALM E» LADD, Dean Nobody ought to know this more than the average rich man who shows bore­ dom in his face. I will guarantee that College of St. John, the Evangelist there is more complaining, murmering and discontent in the homes of those who Greeley, Colorado have made much during the war, than F U iii. c o u r s e : i n t h e o l o g y there is in the homes of those whose Opportunity afforded to combine this course with Arts Course in the Colorado sons paid the supreme price of their Teachers’ College. idealism. For Information apply to They increased their goods and are so DEAN BONELL bored that in innumerable cases man and wife cannot live together. But selfishness is no more important ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE in the homes of the new rich than it is The-only Eastern college officially con­ in the ranks of labor. trolled by the Episcopal Church and en­ dorsed by the Synod of any Eastern Pro?- General Pershing struck a responsive ince. Its degree of B. A. Is recognized by all universities in this country and chord when he reminded the unions that abroad. Tuition, board and room, $500.00. patriotism was the product of the indi­ Post-office: Annandale-on-Hudson, N. Y. (Station: Barrytown on the New York vidual American and not selfish corpora­ Central Railroad). “On the Hudson River Facing the tions, whether of capital or labor. Catskills.” The laboring man has avowedly re­ W rite to the P resid en t, th e R ev. Bernard Iddings Bell. jected God and gone after his rights. Let us assume that he has a perfect right to do this. What has been the re­ HOWE SCHOOL sult Their leadership has also been self- A Superior and Thorough t seeking. Men who are not lovers of CHURCH SCHOOL FOR BOYS Careful Selection—Limited Enrollment God are not lovers of their fellow-men, A »separate school with individual and when they get into positions of attention for little boys. power they feel no more love for their R ev. C harles H erbert Y oung, M. A. Rector fellow laboring men than they are capa­ ADDRESS BOX W, HOWE, IND. ble of showing for their personal friends. They become bosses because they are selfish men. Men like Trotsky and Bill St. Alban’s School Hayward do not love their fellowmen. SYCAMORE, ILL. They merely envy and hate those who are in the saddle, and when they in turn A School of High Scholastic Standing are in the saddle they are more ruthless Moderate Rates. than their predecessors. I am sure that there is no hope for labor without God in the world. ' They may get shorter hours and more The Donaldson School wages but their children will not rise up TLCHESTER, MARYLAND and call them blessed, for they are not the men that their fathers were. Rev. W. A. McClenthen, D.D., Rectoi No man can be great who is merely Rev. H. S. Hastings, Head Master self centered. No nation can be mighty when selfishness has broken its ranks A Church boarding school foi into class hatreds and those who demand boys, in the hills, twelve miles from Baltimore. Self-help and self-gov- special privileges for- their particular iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiH ernment gives the school exceptional class. I THE WOLCQTT SCHOOL | * * * tone and spirit. The school prepares for college and When more than sixty per cent of a | Boarding and Day School for | is limited to sixty boys. $600 a year i Girls. | nation has rejected God, that nation is Write for a catalogue and pay tb» | DENVER, COLORADO | in a fair way to become apostate, and school a visit. § College Preparatory and General | when a whole nation becomes an aggre­ | Courses. 1 gation of self-seeking individuals, it will = Affiliated with the Wolcott Conservatory | lose its power, whether that power be LOANS. GIFTS AND GRANTS s . of Music. | commercial, political or moral. to aid in building churches, rectoriei and parish houses may be obtained of = CIRCULAR UPON APPLICATION jjj We will be justly despised of the na­ the American Church Building Fund iillllllliillllllllllllllll!llllllBI!ll!lllllllllllllllllllllli!lllllll!llllllllllllllllll tions which are ill, when our policy of Commission. Address its Correspond Representatives wanted in every parish isolation demands that we be clothed in ing Secretary, 281 Fourth Avenu* for The Witness. Profitable spare time purple and fine linen and that we fare New York \voik, ■'¡¡V'rite for terms and sample copies. sumptuously every day, Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication.