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Nosed of, sometime 1 a t e r, Bishop Sherrill spoke some- Bishops Favor New District what apologetically of h i s cutting remarks, saying that he had the utmost respect for By Overwhelming Vote Bishop Swift a n d Bishop * The House of Bishops last where the Church is already Voegeli and did not doubt their week set up a new missionary established. sincerity and had m e a n t publication. district for Central America Bishop Voegeli of Haiti, nothing personal in his and while stating that he did not remarks. (Witness 11/8) by an over- cppose the new district, told When the House adjourned whelming vote but after con- reuse of what could be done in his for dinner it was apparently for siderable fireworks. district with a little more very divided on the question. Bishop Gooden of Panama money. So when it reconvened in the spoke at length on the proposal Presiding Bishop Sherrill Fvening, Bishop Sherrill pro- required at the request of the Presiding then expressed himself as "dis- posed that the matter be post- Bishop. He stated that Church turbed" by these speeches and noned until the Bishops meet leaders had discussed for ten added sharply that the Church in 1957, thus permitting time years about lightening the load would never have moved into for a survey. A motion was Permission he carries with such a huge any new fields if the attitude made to this effect which jurisdiction, and said that the of t h e s e two missionary brought about debate, where-

DFMS. new district, which would upon Bishop Higley of Central / include Nicaragua and Costa New York, advocated ending Rica from his territory, would the matter at once.

Church accomlish this. Bishop Blankingship of In the discussion it was Cuba asked, if the district was stated that the new territory established, would the bishop be an American or a Latin Episcopal would call for 830,000 in new funds American and said that action the and that its total budget should not be taken on electing of would be about 557,000 with the $27,000 transferred from one until the people of Central work now done in Costa Rica American had been consulted. '"A one-legged Latin American Archives and Nicaragua. The set-up calls for a bishop, his secre- bishop would be better than a two - legged American 2020. tary, and three new priests, one each for Guatemala, El bishop," he wisecracked. Salvador and Honduras. However Bishop Melcher of Brazil disagreed and declared Copyright Following Bishop Gooden's that laymen in his district are address, Bishop S w i f t of of the opinion that a North Puerto Rico spoke strongly American bishop will be neces- against the set-up, stressing sary for many years. He also that "it will take 830,000 now, advocated immediate action by BISHOP SHERRILL - disti becd but this will be only the , .)"'ciese', o. Bi. hol.3 Swcift declaring that "we cannot beginning of a great deal more ad oegeli waste another year in going money" and he added that into Central America. As "one does not have to open a bishops had prevailed at the Latin America will go, so will new jurisdiction to expand the time the Church was setting go the Western Hemisphere." Church". He pointed out that up the districts of Puerto Rico At this point Bishop Bent- with additional funds much and Haiti. ley, director of overseas work work could be done in areas After the matter was dis- cf the National Council, who

THE WITNESS - NOVEMBER 22, 1956 Three had offered a resolution to Million Dollar Gift 25 favoring establishment of pcstpone action at this meet- The gift of a million dollars such a position, and the others ing, withdrew his motion. The by an anonymous donor was giving no opinions. original motion to establish announce on the third day of In opposing the proposal for the new district was then put the meeting by Bishop Sher- such a bishop, Bishop Louttit to a vote and passed virtually rill. It is to aid the Church emphasized that a bishop has a in building in areas where territorial diocese and said population growth has caused that it would cause hopeless a shortage of facilities. confusion to have a "free- The money was given to the wheeling" bishop. He also Episcopal Church Foundation, stated that it is highly un- established at the San Fran- desirable to try to set up a cisco General Convention in military Church and that he 1949, and is to be used as part had not heard any argument of its revolving fund. The advanced for a bishop for the announcement said that rapid armed forces that could not be advanced for a bishop of publication. growth caused by the opening of new areas in the west be- college students. and cause of irrigation, and the He said that talk of rank in establishment of ne w in- the case of a bishop is reuse dustries in some communities, "adopting the mores of the for left many potentially large world" and added, "I don't like congregations with badly out- the notion of trying to throw BISHOP HIGLEY - said there grown facilities or none at all. our weight around." required has been enough talk and called "These situations," the an- The House then voted in for a vote nouncements continued, "pro- favor of a resolution not to armed vide a strategic opportunity appoint a bishop of the unanimously. On whether or forces. Permission not to elect a bishop for the for the Episcopal Church to attract and hold new members, district at this time, or wait Healing until people in Central except that most young con- DFMS. Concern because the Church / America could be consulted, gregations are unable to make has no official position on the voice vote was close. On the immediate outlay of money spiritual healing was brought the standing vote however it to begin construction. Church was decided to elect at once. "Wherever possible, t h e before the House by Bishop foundation, through its re- Dicus, suffragan of West The action will now go to the Texas. He reported that the standing committees of the volving loan fund, provides the Episcopal dioceses for their approval temporary outside assistance Continued on Page Seventeen) the which is taken for granted. to initiate a building program." of Elections Armed Forces On Thursday morning the The proposal to elect a Archives Rev. Raymond P. Ferris, rec- bishop for the armed forces tor of Christ Church, Nash- was defeated at the opening 2020. ville, Tenn., who formerly was session, which followed the dean of the cathedral at quiet day conducted by Arch- Ancon, Panama Canal Zone bishop Carrington which ended Copyright was elected bishop of the new at 4 p.m. on Tuesday. Central America district. He Bishop Louttit of South is 43 and speaks Spanish Florida, who is chairman of fluently. the armed forces division of The Rev. Norman L. Foote the National Council, cited a was elected bishop of Idaho, survey he had made of ap- to succeed Bishop Rhea. He proximately 100 chaplains now has been director of Roanridge, serving the Episcopal Church the town-country center at with the armed forces and said Parkville, Mo., since 1950 and that he ha d received 69 questionnaire he will be going into a district returns of a BISHOP WARNECKE - enter- where the institute established had sent them, with 40 saying tains the Bishops and their wives an extension center three that a bishop of the armed in a vice hotel in the Pocono years ago. forces would not be beneficial, Mlountains

Four THE WITNESS - NOVEMBER 22, 1956 at home we can not only pray Bishops Have A Hard Time but we can also act. Discussion With World Situation Nearly every Bishop to speak began by saying "swell" By W. B. Spofford Sr. because it named names and but then launched into his * Our Bishops last Wednes- places it had little chance of objections. day decided not to issue a getting by the more than a Bishop Bentley, head of Pastoral Letter, but rather a hundred Bishops, a consider- overseas work, thought that brief "call to prayer" over the able number of whom took the England and France should not present world mess. It was a floor to express their the- be hopped on without also two man job by Bishop Bayne ological and political opinions. naming Israel and the Soviet of Olympia and Bishop Emrich Union. Britain and France, the of Michigan, acting for a com- Bishop Sherrill, who statement said, were wrong in seems mittee to sit headed by Bishop Dun acting in Suez independently tight until he gets mad of about Washington, with Bishop of the UN. What's happening something, did not say publication. Louttit of South Florida and in Hungary is terrible. Hearts "swell" but torn into the Bishop Gibson, coadjutor of document with emotion. He and bleed for the suffering of the Virginia, the other members. talked about the people peoples of the world; we must of The next afternoon it was Hungary being killed, tortured, reuse pray for these people, par- read by Bishop Dun. Ordin- c'eported to Siberia. The state- for ticularly those of Hungary and ment, he concluded, arily such unfinished business for "those who have decisions failed "to js done in strike the executive session; to make" and "for the United tragic urgency of but this time the Presiding the hour". required Nations". It called on Church Bishop said he did not like Bishop Oldham, retired of such meetings in a democratic Albany, liked the statement Church and saw no reason fairly well, but he did not like

Permission why visitors and the press the crack at England over should be asked to leave. The Suez. "England did not act half dozen reporters covering from self-interest", he said, *

DFMS. the meeting, not having had which got a laugh / from the much that they call news up brethren, though a Bishop to this point, promptly moved sitting beside me called it "not Church out of the smoking room with a laugh but a boo." In any their pencils sharp. So if you case Bishop Oldham, born in have read in your paper a England which may have had

Episcopal story datelined "Pocono Manor, something to do with it, Pa., Nov. 15" telling you what wanted to whitewash h i s the

of the Bishops think of the native land and crack down on world situation, know that it Israel and Egypt as the was not their final say-so. culprits. He described the job

Archives What did happen on the as a "Sunday school state- 15th was for the Bishops to ment that Nasser would snap

2020. tear up the nice document his fingers at if he read it." prepared by the two scholarly Whereupon Bishop Dun, who Bishops and then to throw the BISHOP DUN - was cheerfully was good natured throughout the optimistic about getting the state- and also optimistic about his Copyright pieces back at them with mcnt into request that they put it to- satisfactory shape committee being able to bring gether over-night and bring it people to "take a new and in a satisfactory job the next back to them t h e next deeper look at forgiveness." day, said with realistic under- morning. I did not wait for It said too that the UN is standing, that the Bishops the final result but I did talk the place where these world were not addressing them- to one of the author-bishops conflicts belong, and less we selves to Nasser and Bulganin, before leaving and I rather be self-righteous, keep in mind whom he did not think would gathered that he didn't care that racial divisions in the pay too much attention to much at that point what hap- U. S. are a part of the sad state them, but were addressing pened to his essay. of the world. We must pray themselves to the people of The original piece was a for a just order and peace for the Episcopal Church. swell job in my book but the peoples of the world, but (Continued on Page Sixteen)

THE WITNESS - NOVEMBER 22, 1956 Five and deplored the U n it e Nations' "'want of effective- Murray Declares Total War ness" in the situation. The Council said it was Means Total Destruction "most distressing and regret- table that the governments of based upon them." * Commissioner Thomas E institutions France and Great Britain, He said mankind today must Murray of the Atomic Energy faced with countless violations give up "both the concept and Commission said in Washing- of the United Nations' Charter, institution of total war." ton on Nov. 10th that the the should have judged unilateral United States must abandon "A total nuclear war, fought intervention as legitimate." military programs and strat- to total victory, could only lead It said it feared " the psy- egy contemplating the use of to total woe," he warned. chological consequences of this large nuclear weapons against He said the United States decision for which others the civilian population of an must either abandon military claim, or might claim, to seek enemy country. policies and strategy based on justification."

publication. He said the current military the concept of total war or Deploring the United doctrine of total war repre- face total destruction itself in and Nations' lack of "effectiveness sents a "regression towards the event of war. Large nu- and authority," the Council barbarism" and threatens clear weapons, he said, should reuse expressed the hope that the civilization with ruin. be kept only for purposes of for present crisis "may bring its Mr. Murray spoke at the deterring "total" attacks on member nations to remedy the annual banquet of the Catho- our own civilian centers and weakness and evasions which lic Association for Internation- should not be the basis of our required have paralyzed its function- al Peace as the group pre- strategy in the event of war. ing." sented him with its annual The commissioner renewed The Council stressed that award in recognition of his his plea that there be an efforts to promote peaceful "order and justice are possible Permission "upper limit" on the size of only where there is respect for use of atomic power. atomic and hydrogen bombs "The Christian effort at an internationally acknow- we place in our military stock- ledged standard of law." DFMS. peace-making from its origin / pile, lest the possession of such It asked that the United undertook the task of civiliz- weapons lead to a policy of Nations, "with an internation- ing warfare," he said. "It set military expediency that would

Church al force at last at its disposal, itself against pacifism-the cause them to be used. assume responsibility for re- notion that war is always im- He also voiced again his establishing and maintaining moral-but it set itself even appeal that the testing of huge barbar- peace in the Near East." Episcopal more strongly against H-bombs be stopped in favor ism-the notion that the use the of a testing program designed of armed force is not subject PASADENA PARISH of to develop a variety of wea- to any moral restraints." This pons of smaller power. CALLS BURT Christian tradition has been The security of the United "r u p t u r e d," Mr. Murray * The Rev. John H. Burt Archives States, Mr. Murray said, is of Youngstown, Ohio, has been charged. actually being undermined by He said the United States elected rector of All Saints, 2020. reliance on the huge weapons Pasadena, Calif., to succeectd itself "ratified with fearful of total destruction. He main- effectiveness the immoral doc- the Rev. John F. Scott, rector tained that U. S. policy is for twenty years. Mr. Burt trine that the civilian popula- "moral fallacy," Copyright prisoner of a begins the new w o r k in tion has no claim to immunity the idea that security can be January. from destruction in war by the gained by abandoning all moral unfortunate American decision restraints on the waging of LARGE ENROLLMENT to drop atomic bombs on Hiro- war. shima and Nagasaki." OF EPISCOPALIANS With the development of the ANGLO-FRENCH ACTION * St. Paul's House at East hydrogen bomb "the barbaric CONDEMNED Carolina College, Greenville, doctrine that everybody may N. C., ministers to 107 stu- be killed in war is assured of * The Council of the French dents who are Episcopalians. success," he added. Protestant Federation, in a Frank Fagan is the student Mr. Murray said it is always statement issued at an extra- worker, under the direction of within man's power to give up crdinary session, scored the the Rev. John Drake, rector "false ideas and dismantle the Anglo-French action in Egypt of St. Paul's.

THE WITNESS - NOVEMBER 22, 1956 Children Need The Church-Too By Mrs. Harold C. Kelleran Director of Education of Washingtoni privileged. But we're doing something about N I THEthe many past meetingsten years I1inhave this attendeddiocese onecomes of it, almost everyone of us." The others nodded to my mind time and again. It raised a in agreement. baffling question. The question that keeps recurring as I As part of what is somewhat dubiously think of that pleasant meeting among the new called Religious Emphasis week in our colleges pagans is this: what were they missing? and universities, I visited a sorority house in What was the quality the lack of which made one of our great urban universities. The them feel "underprivileged", to use their own from the thirty-eight or forty girls who gathered in- word? What did these children need formally around the fireside were not only Church? publication. charming and gay but interested. They had They had some answers. Some said a strong and prepared some questions to ask this peculiar faith. Some said, something bigger than they visitor who was labelled "religious". Further- were. Some said it was like being brought up reuse more it became apparent that a number of a foundling, as though one had no ancestry. for them, Sunday after Sunday, had been visiting One wise young woman said that perhaps they churches of various denominations in an valued it more because they hadn't had it-as attempt to decide where to give their al- you always wish you'd taken horseback lessons required legiance. if you couldn't ride. Their answers, like mine, As they spoke easily of this and that are incomplete though each has some truth church, I interjected a question, "What about in it.

Permission the church in which you were reared ?" What this experience taught me was a One of them said rather airily, *"We didn't truth I always knew-that statistics seem safe Mrs. Kelleran." until they come alive. Even if it is four out DFMS. go to church,

/ is always the human hope that I thought she spoke for herself but a few of five, there one may be the fifth person. In that college minutes later one of the girls made a casual sorority room I saw the living meaning of the Church remark and the "didn't-go-to-church" girl fact that just over half of our population flared at her classmate, "That's alright for acknowledges no church connection of any you to say, Susie. You're one of the lucky kind. I have known this figure for years and Episcopal ones. Your parents gave you a church train- been pharasaically thankful that I live in this the ing Ours didn't." area, rather than in the state of Washington, of Again I interjected a question. "As a for example. There the figures are over- matter of fact, how many of you were brought whelming-92% of the population describing up without any church relationship at all ?" Archives itself as unchurched. This is the missionary Twenty-two hands went up. "But what frontier of the church, the mission to the Surely you w e n t 2020. about Sunday School? people next door and down the street and at there?" No they hadn't. My spokesman for the next desk. the group sensed my incredulity. "We really Hostages to Heaven don't want to be critical of our families," she Copyright years ago the Junior League said gently. "They've been wonderful to us. Several magazine, perhaps an unlikely source, pub- It's only about the Church we're under- lished an article called Hostages to Heaven. In it the author, I believe a Washingtonian, sends her children to Church School though All our "underprivileged" children do not neither she nor her husband go to church. live in slums. Mrs. Harold C. Keileran, One day a neighbor, an "advanced thinker" diocesan director of Christian Education, asks why she sends the has found some in strange places in her to use her term, Church School. The author is ceaseless round of visitations to Church children to horrified to hear herself say, "Why, all nice Schools and student groups within and out- children go to Sunday School." Then she side the Church. takes time to think out why and her thinking

THE WITNESS - NovEMBER 22, 1956 Sev~en brings her back to the Church, not as a Possibly he has the rector confused with God, dumping place for her children but as a whose house he is told the Church is. participating member. She has learned that When he is a little older, a fourth grader "children need the Church-too." perhaps, he thinks of the Church as a building What this mother discovered is one of the and usually a particular building on a partic- ancient truths of the Church unhappily lost ular corner. for the past century and a half when individ- As a teenager he reflects an idea of the ualism has been philosophically and politically Church which has been given to him by both dominant. That is the idea of the Church as his own experience and the interpretation of people and particularly as People of God. This his family. About three of ten teenagers still is the Biblical view of the relation of God to regard Church as a building. They say the his people. They would not have understood Church is the body of Christ, or the company people coming individually to find God in a of God's faithful people, of the worshiping building and to make themselves better community of Christ. individuals. They understood themselves as A couple usually have it identified with publication. God's people who, because God has chosen people: the rector whose door is never closed saved them in end- and them and called them and to their troubles, a dearly loved if casually less disasters, came to worship him thankfully treated teacher who has been open to them

reuse and went forth to do His will. They told and they to him. The other two of ten will for themselves the stories of God's people, good reflect a negative idea: it's a place for goody- people or bad people - of mothers who goodies. Or a place where they tell you what resemble us in that they are sometimes quite not to do. required good and often quite bad at almost the same Worship in Honesty and in Faith time. The New Testament Church has this same idea of community, of being followers It is all of these things, it is true. It is of the Way. They even held all things in a place where God is worshiped in honesty

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/ and give their thanks to him in serving others Children's Heritage and in worship of God. It is above all God's It is characteristic of the Church, this sense holy common people, of every age from infants Church of ancient tradition continuing through one's to the very old. self, of God's mighty acts in history still going This is what children need. Here is where on today, of meaning in one's own life made they belong, with others whom God has made Episcopal clear in the light of eternal purposes, that and redeemed and sanctified-and who know the gives children a heritage nothing else can and admit it. Here is a vocabulary of ancient of give. If it were only a past that the Church words and timeless stories that root them in offered, it would be a gift of value. But it history that antedates their country or their offers, in a true Christian community, both a

Archives family. They are citizens of an ancient and present and a future too. continuing people. They are at home in a

2020. It is a present which speaks to the nine- world view that precedes and transcends race year old of forgiveness and restoration when and creed and nationality. They are claimed his desire to be part of a gang has caused him and named and recognized as Christ's. It is a present Copyright to break the law 'he knows. Who would deny childrxen this heritage? which helps the teen-ager to live with the None of us who think of it very long. None powerful new drives that terrify him, to bring of us who love and value the Church. How them into a Church which has known these shall we give it to our children? There is only drives for centuries and has patience to love one way: by being the Church. Working for him through his difficult adolescence. It is a it will help, and coming to it will be valuable, present, a now, lighted from the past of real but knowing that one is of the Church, the people and lighted, too, from the future of community, is the only real answer. hope realized. "It's only in the Church we're under- Would the average child in the church say privileged", says the voice that haunts me. anything like this about it? No, he would not. What may I do to keep this child from If he were a kindergartner, he probably thinks standing starved at the gates of the greatest of the Church as his Sunday School class. of treasure houses?

THE WITNESS - NOVEMBER 22, 1956 A Rector Reports On Russia By Lloyd R. Gillmett Rector of St. John the Evangelist, St. Paul a camera. Now you can take pictures every- T HEmonths first visitimpression this summer I got is from that aa tre-two where. A tremendous change has taken place mendous change has taken place in Russia in Russia. The Iron Curtain is rising. during the past couple of years. This change Friendly People becomes evident when you think of the great you number of travelers that are there in Rtissia A ND the next thing which impresses now. While we were there we met one group tremendously is the friendliness of the of teachers from France numbering a hundred; people. The people in England and in France 'we met a group of newspapermen from the were kind, but the people in Germany, and mid-western states of this country ; we met the people in Yugoslavia, and the people in publication. people from Sweden; we met a number of Russia were kind and friendly beyond words. We did not meet any such friendliness any- and lawyers from this country, and we met busi- ness men. where in the western world as we met in reuse Great numbers of individuals are being let Yugoslavia. Literally the red carpet was put for into Russia to travel there without any re- out for us. On a Sunday afternoon we had a strictions, practically speaking. We ourselves meeting with some of the officials of the were not confined to any particular areas in government. We went by bus to the govern- required which we went. We could travel almost any- ment building, and when we got to the front where. Two years ago you could not travel of the building there we saw a beautifully the that way. Moreover, not only are foreigners swept and clean red carpet all the way up

Permission travelling in Russia. The Russian people steps waiting for us. They literally put out very kind, not themselves are travelling. The trains are the red carpet and they were people only in answering questions about conditions DFMS. jammed. You can see hordes of young / or high school age and younger travelling, in Yugoslavia, but also in the reception which under the direction of a teacher, on trains and they extended to us after meeting.

Church everywhere, from one end of the country to Then we flew from Belgrade to Kiev. When the other-vacationers, learning about their we got off the plane a committee met us and tremendous country. This is another signifi- led us to the custom office. Our baggage was

Episcopal cant change. not opened. Previous to this we had sent the And people are not being watched. A news- things home expecting that everything was of Any literature about paperman once said right after this change going to be looked over. But they did not took place, "I have the strange feeling that Russia was sent home. open our baggage, and they did not do any-

Archives I am not being followed." You are not a look at the picture on followed. Although we were met at the plane thing except to take your passport and at your face and let you 2020. by an Intourist guide, yet we were at liberty. We could follow her directions or not. We pass. could go on the tour as it was planned, or we They were very friendly and they led us

Copyright could leave the group and walk the streets and cutside to put us in the bus. There was a wander about wherever we wanted. Indeed, group of people all anxious to talk with us. we walked right into the Kremlin without any It is amazing how many people can make obstruction whatsoever. And pictures are themselves understood by using English- being taken everywhere. The only place that wanting to talk with us and wanting to know you cannot take pictures, and I do not know where we came from. They were delighted the reason why, is at the railway stations. to learn that we came from America. And We took them in the Kremlin, we took them wherever we went we met this friendliness. in the churches. We took them everywhere. As soon as we got in front of the hotel in Two or three years ago you couldn't take Kiev another group assembled around us and pictures. Mr. Johnson, a newspaperman, was some high school students, after talking with arrested only three years ago because he had us briefly, getting a few words of under-

THEc WITNESS - NOVEMBER 22, 1956 Nine standing from us, rushed off and bought was always distrustful, distrustful of anybody some postcards and came back and asked for practically. There was an incident told when our autographs. Friendliness is the word for he was head of the state that he had to en- these people. gage somebody who knew English perfectly, And there are hundreds of thousands. That and so he hired an aristocratic woman to is one of the things that impresses you most. translate English into Russian. A n d he In Kiev, and in Moscow, and in Leningrad- worked together with her in his office and tremendous cities-hundreds of thousands of they would translate. On a particular after- people on the streets, day and night, walking, noon it was their custom to have tea, and she going one doesn't know where, but on the go went to the door and received the tea from constantly. Hundreds of thousands of wonder- the servant who brought it. Then she hap- ful people. Another instance of friendliness pened to set it on the sideboard and at the was evidenced when we had left the Orthodox same time turned her back to him. After Church in Moscow on a Sunday morning be- that she took the tea over to him and gave fore the service was over-we had been there him his cup and she took hers, and she went publication. an hour and a half or longer-in order to get baclk and drank hers. He didn't touch a drop. and to the Kremlin in time to go through Lenin's The next day the tea was analyzed and poison tomb. We got off the bus at the bottom of was found in it, and the woman lost her life. reuse the hill. We saw a tremendous line of people. He was distrustful of everybody. That was for visitors in Moscow, who were waiting to go a characteristic of the peasant in Russia, to into Lenin's tomb. The queue went all the be distrustful of anybody who was above him.

required way around the Kremlin, several people thick, Stalin had that distrust in his own heart a mile or more long. That line assembles and mind to the very end. Many of them are every time it is announced in the newspapers still distrustful, I am sure. But this distrust that the tomb is going to be open. And there is being overcome and the people are friendly, Permission they stood. They had been standing there friendly to everybody who appears in the for hours, waiting for the time that the tomb country. I am not talking about the Com-

DFMS. would be opened. And as we got out of the munist Party. I am talking about 194-million / bus and walked up the hill, what did they do? members of the Russian state who are not They applauded! They applauded! They Communists. There are only 61 million Com-

Church recognized that we were Americans, or at least munists in Russia. People are overcoming this that we were not Russians, and they ap- distrustfulness and are advancing. plauded, welcomed us. Do you think that any They are on the march. Russia is on the

Episcopal football crowd here in the United States, wait- march, economically, educationally, culturally, the ing in line to get in, would applaud anyone and her standard of living is rising continuous- of else who got in front of them? Friendliness, ly. Many of you went to the world's fair in you see! This friendliness among the people Chicago and in New York. But there is a of Russia is over-whelming. That is all the continuous world's fair going on in Moscow, Archives more amazing when you realize that the Rus- every day throughout the whole year, an ex- sian person has always been very distrustful- 2020. position-agricultural and industrial exposi- distrustful of foreigners, and distrustful of tion-is held. There are sixteen large and people who owned property, distrustful of the aristocracy. beautiful buildings representing each of the Copyright Those of you who are acquainted with the sixteen republics. And in each one of these biography of Tolstoy, who was an aristocrat, buildings you can see the things which are who owned a great deal of land, who had many grown in the republic and the things which serfs under him, know that they were even are produced there. distrustful of him. After he gave them land and wanted to do everything for their welfare Hundreds of thousands of people go there they were still distrustful of him. every day, at least during the summer time, to see what is being grown-the finest corn and Stalin wheat and barley and rye. The finest that is one of the main characteristics ANDof Stalin who himself was one of the vegetables are shown too, cabbages, and serfs. He came out of the lower classes. He cucumbers, and peas and beans. The finest

Ten THE WITNESS - NOVEMBER 22, 1956 horses and cows can be seen there in barns welfare state plan. Leningrad, which is a which are provided. large city, has 97 technical schools with And the machinery is overwhelming. We 190,000 students and 600 day schools, with were led through a make believe-or rather 425,000 pupils and 47 museums and 1700 a semblance of a coal mine-and we saw all libraries. You are surprised when you talk of the mining equipment which is being used with these people and learn they are well up in the Ural. We saw binders, and we saw acquainted with what is going on in the world. tractors, and we saw combines, and we saw Educationally they are measuring up very well plows, and we saw practically everything that to the boys and the girls and the young mein we have in our own farms. and women in our own country. Russia has everything that we have, but Culture not as much of it. She has more resources. It is said that there are sixteen million Negroes USSIA is advancing culturally too. Al- in this country, but they have more automo- most everywhere you go in the cities biles than all of the 200-million Russians you find parks. You go around a corner and publication. taken together. But a tremendous growth there is another park. And almost every any of these parks you will and has taken place during the past 21 years. One night in almost of the members of our tour was Dr. Spivey of find a band concert or a concert by a on a reuse Florida Southern College who was in Russia symphony orchestra. I went in to one for 21 years ago. At that time there was just Sunday evening, and there it was, a band of one automobile in Russia. Now there is a men playing very fine classical music, and I steady stream of traffic in all of the leading found out that the orchestra was from a small required cities at least. Russia is on the march military unit not far away. economically. We went to the opera in Leningrad and we saw an opera company from Litvinoff, which Education town of Permission is a small town up in the Ural-a of is on the march educationally. One 100,000 people having an opera company! SHEthe first announcements made to us by That is just as if Duluth had an opera com- DFMS.

/ our Intourist guide as we were coming in to pany. But not only an opera company. We Moscow on the train, having ridden on that saw also a ballet, and they were from Litvin- train all day and all night from Kiev, was this: And then we went to the opera in Church off also. "Soon you will see the Moscow University on Moscow, and we went to the ballet. your right." And we looked out of the train I don't believe that the Metropolitan can and there it was-a tremendous building, re- produce opera in any better manner than they Episcopal ported to be the highest building in Europe. did at Moscow, and I am sure that I never the 23,000 students, college students, and presented than it of holding saw ballet more beautifully almost every place you go in Moscow you can was there. I met some people who were see this university. They have about 2,000 klaving Russia on the train as we went through

Archives professors. Finland. I don't know where they were And Russia is doing something which no going. They were Russian people travelling, 2020. other country in the whole world is doing. and they asked me about how much of the Russia is paying her professors more and her Russian literature I knew. I told them two or scientists more than she pays her plumbers three names, and then they began to say Copyright and her technical men-putting first things that they knew Shakespeare and all of the first except in the case of religion. She is English writers, and they knew our writers advancing educationally. The Ambassador too, Hemingway and all of the people present there said that she has stamped out illiteracy and in the past. These Russian people are during the past forty years. Children start reading practically all the literature in the school when they are about seven years of world, book after book. They are advancing age and they have to go until they are culturally. fourteen. They plan soon to make them go Standard of Living until seventeen, at which time they are ready for college. HEIR standard of living is not up to what Those who are qualified can get into college, ours is yet, of course. They are not so and all of education is free according to this well dressed and they are not so well fed. Eleve, THE WITNESS - NOVEMBER 22, 1956 Somebody said that their standard of living to a big store there right across from the is about what ours was in 1928. Perhaps it Kremlin, and you will see a line of people, at is. But they need new houses. People said least 5,000 in number, waiting to get into that that the people out in the country live in grass store to make purchases of one kind or an- houses. I did not see the grass houses. other. They have all of the food they need, Others said that they live in caves. I did not all the bread and starches and vegetables, but see the caves. But I did see a lot of small they are short of meat. Nevertheless, their log cabins on farms all along the countryside, standard of living is going up. poor little houses which need to be rebuilt. Somebody said that the way to come to Russia is fighting the battle of getting better Russia is not by coming across Europe, but by housing for her people. New apartments are coming across India. If you see the conditions being put up everywhere. In Leningrad, for in India then you will see them as they were instance, they are building 400,000 square in Russia before 1918. So you see the tremen- meters, per year, and they hope that in ten dous advance that has been made within these years they will have at least nine square very short 40 years, made by a tremendous publication. meters for every individual in the city as a number of people working together, all want- and dwelling place. ing the same things that we want. The living conditions are packed, jammed, And I am going to go on and tell you what reuse two or three families living in very small those things are next week. I have said for quarters because of the great numbers of nothing about religion, nothing about the people, and because of the devastation political aims of government, but I will say wrought by the war. But the standard of required things along those lines in the future. living is growing and becoming better con- But remember the people of Russia. Remem- stantly. There are shortages of things too, ber them in your prayers. When you think of course, because of the effort that Russia cf grass huts, and when you think of caves Permission has made in the building of big equipment, in which people live, and when you think of and, I'm sure, because she has put a great deal the poor log cabins and of the crowded apart- of work into the building of arms. Because of DFMS. which we pray / ments, then pray the prayer that she has neglected the production of con- from time to time, "Bless, 0 Lord, the homes sumer goods, and there is a great shortage of in which thy people dwell."

Church consumer goods from time to time. Every morning at eight o'clock you can go (A second article next week) Episcopal the of The World's Population Problems By John Drewett Rector of St. Margaret, London Archives In addition, the revolution in transport

2020. rapid growth in world population which THEhas followed the continued lowering of Swhich followed the harnessing of steam power, the death rate, has caused a great deal of made possible the movement of food from the speculation in recent years. Was the gloomy new areas of production to the thickly pop- Copyright curate right after all? Will the available ulated countries where the food was most food supplies of the world be overtaken by the needed. Medical science, too, had made little clamorous mouths demanding to be fed? progress in checking the endemic diseases, so Why, in fact, have the forebodings of that the death rate remained high during the Malthus not already been fulfilled? His 19th century in all backward countries of the famous thesis was published in 1798; surely world. if he were right, the consequences would have Higher Standard of Living been felt long since. The answer is that in the century following Malthus, great increases SHE revived interest in population problems were achieved in the world's food supplies by in this century, and especially since the the opening up of the granaries of Canada, end of the second world war, is due to the Australia and South America. phenomenal drop in the death rate in every

Twelve THE WITNESS - NOVEMBER 22, 1956 country with no corresponding fall in the birth million by the year A.D. 2330, at which time rate in many countries; to the demand for a there would be standing room only, since this higher standard of living in Africa and Asia is the number of square yards of land surface and to a falling off in the productivity of the of the earth ..." soil in many areas due to bad husbandry and The solution of this urgent problem must the consequent development of the dreaded therefore be sought simultaneously along dust-bowls. two lines. In the first place, a religious and It is so easy in matters of this kind to allow educational campaign must be launched with our prejudices and taboos to get in the way of a view to lowering the birth rate Secondly, the facts and so to obscure the real issues, the standard of living in the backward that it is valuable to have at hand a survey countries must be raised and more food must by competent scientists, such as that recently be produced. published by Political and Economic Planning The technical problem, although not easy, under the title World Population and Re- is comparatively straightforward. What is sources. needed in the first instance, is a rapid expan-

publication. We are here reminded at the outset of the sion of technical education in the western size of the problem. Each day the human countries, in order that more scientists and and race increases by 88,000; in a single year there technicians will be available to increase the are 34-million reuse more mouths to feed. There is, world's resources of food, raw materials and

for however, a ray of hope in the fact that pop- energy. For some time to come, the majority ulation is increasing most rapidly in the of these men and women must be westerners, thinly-populated areas of America, Africa and but facilities must also be provided for greater required Oceania, and slowest in the densest-populated numbers of Asians and Africans to be trained countries. in our universities and technical colleges. The report distinguishes between four America and the U. S. S. R. will, of neces- stages in the population Permission cycle which form a sity, bear the greater part of this responsi- fairly regular pattern. (1) High-fluctuating: bility, but we in Britain must do more than we high birth rates and death rates. (2) Early- are doing now, particularly as we are still DFMS. / expanding: high birth rate and falling death politically responsible for large areas of the rate. (3) Late expanding: falling birth rate under-privileged parts of the world. and low or falling death rate. (4) Low Church It will, of course, be essential that less time fluctuating: low or fluctuating birth rate and and money be given to preparation for war and low death rate. far more to the peaceful uses of scientific The cause for concern in the next thirty Episcopal manpower and resources if this world-wide years or so, is due to the fact that nearly the problem is to be adequately tackled. If, as

of two-thirds of the world's population have there is reason to hope, the human race reached only the first or second stage of this chooses to survive and not to destroy itself, a cycle. This means that the world's population great change in the direction of the applica- Archives will continue to increase at its present rate tion of scientific knowledge may soon be for at least another generation. expected. 2020. Standing Room Only There are, according to the report some PROFESSOR W. Arthur Lewis, who holds areas of the world which are still capable of Copyright the chair of political economy at Man- higher productivity and the cultivated area chester University, stated the problem to the itself may be increased by as much as one Duke of Edinburgh's study conference at quarter. There is also the possibility that Oxford in this way: "If unrestricted, the birth food may be obtained in greater quantities rate in tropical countries is around forty a from the sea and from rivers, and that thousand of the population, the death rate artificial factory-made food may be developed can be brought down by modern medicine to to a greater extent in the future. 10 a thousand. If the birth rate remains at The increase in the production of food and 40, while the death rate is down to 10, popula- its more effective use themselves depend, not tion doubles in about 25 years. If this were only upon the work of the scientists, but also to happen all over the world, the world's upon that of educationists, doctors and clergy population would reach 173,500-thousand- in so far as they can help change the religious

THE WITNESS - NOVEMBER 22, 1956 Thirteen and psychological olbstacles to new customs bers of the non-white peoples of the world. and ideas. In fact, the Indian and Japanese govern- Recent developments in agricultural mis- ments, among the "over-populated" countries, sions are of considerable importance in this are the only ones prepared to take active steps respect for they demonstrate the close con- to promote birth control at the present time. nection which exists between religious beliefs The attitude of the Communist government and the treatment of the soil. in China is that the problem can be solved by increasing the food supply rather than by Personal and Religious Aspects limiting population. Communist policy in of lowering the birth rate is HE problem this, as in other respects, is subject to change, much more complex for it involves deep- and it may well be that China will have to ly rooted personal and religious aspects. A take steps before long to reduce the birth rate. great deal of research has been done on On this vital and urgent issue Christian various methods of birth control, but it can- opinion remains divided. The Roman Catholic not yet be said that a satisfactory method Church still allows only the so-called "rhythm"

publication. has been devised. It must, of course, be method, which demands far more intelligence realized that this problem of over-population and and self-restraint than can be expected of the is most acute in countries where the majority simple, illiterate people who are most directly of the people are both poor and illiterate. reuse concerned. Hinduism, too, is in principle They are therefore unable to afford the for opposed to any limitation of births. appliances commonly used in the West and practices are incapable of reading and understanding Nevertheless, religious and moral in the past to new required the complicated instructions which some have adapted themselves they will undoubtedly have to methods require. situations and question. The alternative is Ideally, as the report says a method of birth do so over this a scale not even imagined. control should have six features. "It should mass slaughter on Permission The choice is whether fewer babies are to be be wholly effective and reliable; harmless both born or whether more people are to die in the to users and to children later born; fool-proof;

DFMS. violence of famine and war. / aesthetically unobjectionable; within the means of the poorest users; and acceptable on moral and religious grounds." Church Such a method does not yet exist, but research is going on in order to discover one Pointers for Parsons with all these features. Any method must, By Robert Miller Episcopal of necessity, be used with the full co-operation Episcopal Clergyman of Campton, N. H. the

of of the countries concerned. Nothing could do more harm than the suggestion that the "Some of my clergy," mused the bishop, white race was attempting to maintain its are surprisingly wise and some are astonish- Archives position of supremacy by reducing the num- ingly stupid but I must confess that the wise ones do some very stupid things and the stupid 2020. ones some wise things. I really don't know THE FAMILY SERVICE which kind I prefer. The stupid ones, I By think. Still .. . . I suppose there is much to Copyright Massey H. Shepherd Jr. be said for a mediocrity of gifts. Just sup- The foremost liturgical scholar of the pose that every bishop were a St. Augustine. I do not think I would like to be on the bench Church in this leaflet tells you what you of bishops at all." ought to know about the Service that is a So with us parsons. No doubt we have vital part of new educational materials. often wished our gifts were greater and better-that we were good preachers and fine 25g a copy - $2 for ten pastors and valued counsellors but when we The WITNESS think it over we are glad we are not. It would Tunkhannock, Pa. be an embarassment of riches and being a five-talent man has its problems.

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NORTH CASTINE MAINZ Sixteen THE WITNESS - NOVEMBER 22, 1956 House of Bishops Mass., then declared that the CARILLON GIVEN (Continued from Page Four) matter was of great concern SEWANEE to the committee on theolog- matter had been the subject * The University of the of study in his diocese and ical education which he heads, whereupon th Houseae voted to South is to have a $65,000 that Bishop Jones, unable to carillon consisting of 56-bells. attend because of illness in refer the matter to that com- mittee for a report at the It will be a memorial to Bishop his family, hoped the House Leonidas Polk and is given by could deal with the matter. meeting of Bishops to be held next Fall at Sewanee. W. Dudley Gale, insurance Bishop Dun, as chairman of executive of Nashville. the committee on pastorials, Race Relations said the matter had been of A pastorial on race relations, DETROIT CHURCH concern to the committee and to be the work of a large com- CONSECRATED that they were considering a mittee to include others be- * All Saints Church, De- study which would culminate side members of the House of troit, was consecrated October in a long document-really a Bishops, was urged. Bishop 28th by Bishop Emrich. He publication. book-dealing with the subject M a rm i o n of Southwestern also preached. which would be "theologically Virginia said that it must be and grounded". The bishops voted a thorough and scholarly job, to authorize such a study. done by a committee repre- reuse sentative of all parts of the for A Bit of Humor country. 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THE WITNESS - NOVEMBER 22, 1956 Seventeen BISHOP PEABODY churches, colleges and semin- NEW CHURCH ISSUE S APPEAL aries in both countries and to AT CHARITON address mass-meetings spon- * Bishop Peabody, con- sored by local councils of * St. Andrew's, Chariton, cerned about the world crisis churches. Iowa, is building a new church clue to Suez and Hungary, On Dec. 6, New York Uni- costing about $30,000. issued a letter read in all the versity will present Niemoeller °hurches of Central New A UNIQUE YEAR ROUND GIFT with the university medal, its *. Christen Iass. Baptism York. He appealed to people Purified water f rum THlE IiVER "highest a wa rd to distin- JORDAN below Jericho. Bottled "to make religious use of the in handmade pottery replies of guished people." vesselused at the time of Christ. Each container Individuially pack- -,risis by more regular at- aged to prevent breakage and RIVER JORIi sent duty tree directly from the tendance at public worship, to City of Jerulnalemi, Hashemite CONFERENCE ON WATER Kingdom of Jordan. Price $2. think in daily prayers of the Send cheek or gash to Mrs. MINISTRY Thomas B. Winston, 71 W. 12th needs and hopes of all men- St. NYC 11. those with whom we differ * A conference on the min- as well as those with whom we istry was held at Bexley Hall, agree-and to grasp the op- the divinity school of Kenyon publication. 1889STAINED LEADINGDESIGNERS GLASSandCRAFTSMEN of portunity offered to see that College, Nov. 9-10, attended CHURCH FURNISHINGS & BRONZE TABLETS and -he Church is strengthened to by men from Ohio, Virginia, ISince -perform her full task." Delaware and Michigan. PAYRE-SPIERS S9(JDIOS, 4!"54 EAST13th ST. * PATERSONI5. N. J. reuse Leaders were Dean Corwin for NIEMOELLER WARNS C. Roach of Bexley; the Rev. AGAINST VIOLENCE Sidney McCammon, rector at Middletown, Ohio; the Rev.

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Eighteen THE: WITINESS - NOVEMBER 22, 1956 in that it is following in the foot- steps of Rome. BACKFIRE If there is anything Almighty ST. MARY'S SCHOOL God has tried to reveal to man SEWAN"EE, TENN. through Jesus Christ it is that men Exclusively for high school girls. Honer JOHN F. DAVIDSON must be ruled by love tempered with knowledge. system stressed. Accredited. Staff of St. George's, Newo York Not silly senti- mental love hut the kind of love Please isddreaaa Robert Miller writes so uniformly that makes a man lay down his THE SISTER SUPERIOR, C.S.M. well a nd provocatively in his life for his friend, or that comes Pointers for Parsons that he should into the world under the "form of receive a word of congratulation a servant" and not under the form and encouragement from time to of a king. time. His last release (November ST. AGNES SCHOOL 1), gets that from me. OWEN LLOYD Priest of Anthony, Kansas An Episcopal Country Day and Boarding The clinching note in his last School for Girls paragraph is a most timely re- I believe that it is time we take seriously to heart the works Lxcellent College Preparatory record. Exten- minder to many of us parsons. of our sive sports fields and new gymnasium. The business office, over-professional ones are a terror for after all the Boarders range fiom Grade 9 to College National Council is the business Entrance. publication. to me-and, I happen to know, to a office of our Church, deriving its MISS BLANCHE PITMAN, Prinscipal great host of laymen. I quote ALBANY Nsw Yozx

and authority Miller in order that his thought from both Houses of Gen- eral Convention-the may be still further spread: "Our senior House, the House of Deputies, and the

reuse ministry is most effective when there is nothing professional about junior House, the House of Bishops. for it!" Bravo, Robert Miller! I also believe that Bishop Burrill LENOX SCHOOL of Chicago is on the right track in A Church School in the Berkshire Hills as regard to the proper function of boys 12-18 emphasizing Christian ideals LUTHER D. WHITE provinces. Many of the actions and character through simplicity of plant required Layman of Wa terford, Conn,. and equipment, moderate tuition, the m- taken by the National Council operative self-help system, and informal should have the approval and the personal relationships among boys as.J Perhaps the m os t important authority of General Convention faculty. problem confronting our country to- before finally being acted upon in IIEV. ROBERT L. CURRY, Headmaster day is that of racial integration. Permission the name of the whole Church. LE~ox, MASSAcnUSETrA There is no doubt that the Supreme Court decision ordering integration in our public schools was a great CARLETON COLLEGE DFMS. step forward. / From a religious Virginia Episcopal School LAURENCE M. GOULD, President standpoint there has never been Carleton is a co-educational liberal arts col- LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA any justification for segregation. lege of limited enrollment and is recog- Jesus Christ never discriminated nized as the Church College of Minnesota. Prepares boys for colleges sand university. Church Address: Director of Admissions against anyone for reasons of race Splendid environment and excellent corps CARLETON of teachers. High standard in scholarship or color. To him every human be- COLLEGE and athletics. Healthy and beautiful loca- ing was a child of God, NOnRTHFIELD MINNESOTA tion in the mountains of Virginia. with equal For catalogue, apply to rights. For this reason the Chris- Episcopal tian Church should take its stand GEORGE L. BARTON, JR., Ph.D., Headmaster, Wox 408 the for racial equality and against seg- of regation. Only in this way will HOLDERNESS it he following in the way of the The White Mountain School for boys Master. 13 19I. "lhotough college preparation ini small classes. Student government em- phasizes responsibilit-. Team sports, ski- The Bishop's School Archives ALEXANDER ing. Debating. Glee Club. Art. New LA JOLLA, CALIFORNIA F. GILMAN firenroof building. Layman of Palatine, Illinois DONALD C. HAGERMAN, Headmaster A Resident Day School for Girls. Grades Plv-mouth New Hampshire Seven through Twelve. College Preparatory. 2020. ART - MUSIC - DRAMATICS Since Bishop Burrill has already Twenty-Acre Campus, Outdoor Heated Pool, said "the Episcopal Church is not Tenniis, Hockey, Basketball, Riding. a democracy," his article on the THE RT. REV. FRArcs ERIC BLOT President of Board of Trustees

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