t-OS £ 3nv £8 «d *«ÍHdT®P1STFíd ÎS ÌSTf S SSS The Witness' t* t ff) % V W a® * 9« Vol. V. No. 44. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, JUNE 25, 1921 $1.50 A YEAR Dr. Ingley Consecrated Bishop Pittsburg Ministers Defend Coadjutor of Colorado Freedom of Pulpit Six Bishops Participate in Service. Presiding Resent the Attempt of Commercial Organizations Bishop the Honor Guest of the Occasion to Prescribe Limits for Their Preaching The Rev. Fred Ingley was consecrated The Pittsburgh Ministerial Union on bishop coadjutor of the diocese of Colorado June 6 declared that it cannot allow the in St. John’s Cathedral, Denver, on the Famous English Pittsburgh Employers’ Association to dic­ morning of St. Barnabas’ Day, June 11. Preachers tate to church organizations what their The Right Reverend Daniel Sylvester During the summer months The attitude should be on social questions. Tuttle, presiding bishop, conducted the Witness is to feature a series of The Ministerial Union expresses the con­ consecration service, and acting with him articles on famous English preachers, viction that the communications from the as consecrators were the Right Reverend written by the Rev. A. Manby Lloyd Employers’ Association, urging business Cortland Whitehead, bishop of Pittsburgh, of London. The first of the series, men to withhold financial support from and the Right Reverend Irving P. Johnson, Recollections of Father Stanton, ap­ the Young Women’s Christian Association bishop of Colorado. pears in this issue. There will be and the Federal Council of the Churches The ceremony was one of the most im­ articles about the Bishop of Lich­ of Christ in America because of their in­ pressive the West has seen in many a day. field, Scott Holland, Conrad Noel, dustrial programs, do not fairly represent Seven bishops participated, the music was Father “Dick” Sheppard, and others. the employing group. The ministers also sung by a choir made up of singers from all declare that they resent “this attempt of Denver churches to the number of ninety- a commercial organization to prescribe one, and the great nave fo St. John’s was erend George Allen Beecher, bishop of limits within which alone the Church and completely filled with clergy and laity of Western Nebraska.. other religious organizations may. move.” Denver and from outlying points in the Bishop Tuttle received the candidate The resolutions are in part as follows: diocese who had gathered to witness the seated in a chair just outside the altar rail. “Whereas, the secretary of the Pitts­ event. Upon his right was seated the Right Rev­ burgh Employers’ Association has issued The presence of Bishop Tuttle lent a dig­ erend Cortlandt Whitehead, bishop of communications with the purpose of dis­ nity and solemnity to the occasion, the ef­ Pittsburgh, and upon his left the Right suading men from furnishing financial fect of which was apparent as the service Reverend Irving P. Johnson, bishop of Col­ support to cèrtain Christian organizations proceeded. Although eighty-four years of orado. Bishop Tuttle, in compliance with because ministers have not limited their age, the bishop said the service in a voice the canon, demanded the usual testimonials message to a so-called ‘neutral zone’ ; that could be heard by his entire congre­ and they were read, the consent of the and, gation, and the fact that this was his House of Bishops showing that eighty-four “Whereas, this involves the dictation eighty-second consecration of a bishop bishops had consented. to religious bodies as to what fields of made the occasion a memorable one. The candidate then pronounced the thought and human service they may The service was begun by Bishop Tuttle. promise to conform to the doctrine, dis­ enter ; The epistle was read by the Right Reverend cipline, and worship of the church and the1 “Whereas, the Church, whenever true Irving P. Johnson, bishop of Colorado, and Litany was read by the Right Reverend to its mission, has zealously guarded its the gospel by the Right Reverend Cortland E. V. Shayler, bishop of Nebraska. absolute freedom to proclaim the full Gospel of Jesus Christ without dictation Whitehead, bishop of Pittsburgh. Bishop Tuttle proceeded with the conse­ from any external authority; and, The Right Reverend James Wise, bishop cration service and when the usual ques­ of Kansas, delivered the sermon, taking as tions had been asked and their answers “Whereas, the Pittsburgh Employers’ his text ‘‘The kingdoms of this world are given, while a hymn was sung the candi­ Association represents itself as speaking become the kingdoms of our Lord and of date was invested with his bishop’s ring, for the employing group— an assumption his Christ and He shall reign forever and his pectoral cross, his chimere, and his doc­ which we are convinced is contrary to ever.”— Rev. 11:15. Bishop Wise declared tor’s hood. fact; that 2,000 years of history have vindicated “Resolved, That we, the Pittsburgh Six bishops participated in the ceremony this prophecy of St. John, but he said there Ministerial Union, resent this attempt of of the laying on of hands, they being the is still much for mankind to learn before a commercial organization to prescribe presiding bishop, the bishop of Colorado, the prophecy willl be completely fulfilled. limits within which alone the Church and the bishop of Pittsburgh, the bishop of He declared that time will not come until other religious organizations may, move; Wyoming, the bishop of Western Nebraska, man builds into his civilization, represented that we reaffirm the historic right and by the home, the state, and the church, the and the bishop of Nebraska. Following this ceremony, the presiding bishop lead the duty of the Church to proclaim the principles of Christ’s kingdom. Addressing whole truth in Christ as revealed in the the newly consecrated bishop to a ’seat in the bishop-coadjutor-elect, he said that God Scriptures and as' applied under the Holy was about to place him as a light upon a the chancel and the Holy Communion was Spirit to every relationship in life; that hill to help mankind forward toward the celebrated. we deny to any political, commercial, in­ goal St. John prophesied. dustrial, or any other group or agency Bishop-coadjutor-eleet Ingley was at­ Large Numbers the right to set any restrictions on the tended by the Reverend C. Herbert Shutt, Confirm ed freedom of the Christian Church or its rector of St. Luke’s, Fort Collins, and the St.-Paul’s Church Augusta, the Rev. G. agencies to apply the spirit and standards Reverend Henry S. Foster, rector of Ascen­ Sherwood, Whitney, rector, has had forty- of the Kingdom of God to the whole of sion, Denver. He was presented by the three candidates for confirmation this year life; that we declare it our solemn duty Right. Reverend Nathaniel S. Thomas, in two classes. Of this number three were and purpose to defend this liberty of the bishop of Wyoming, and the Right Rev- admitted from the Roman Catholic Church. Gospel” Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. 2 T H E WITNESS GENERAL NEWS OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH Commencement at with a more Christian-like spirit than ever United States, and where he will be of Howe School they have done in any former age, or in great assistance in many ways in addi­ The thirty-seventh commencement of any other nation.” tion to his particular work among the Howe School was held on June 4th, 5th unchurched Magyars in America. Enor­ and 6th. The number of alumni pres­ Permanent Results of mous numbers of these have left" the ent and the throng of guests and visi­ Centennial Celebration Church of their native land and are out tors was the largest in the history of the In order that the celebration may have of touch with all religion and isolated school. definite objectives and not be a mere com­ from American life. Saturday was filled with battalion re­ memoration of the past, the Department of view and an interesting track meet. The Missions has made the following concrete China Famine Broken; baseball game between the school team suggestions: Send No More Money and alumni was most interesting, fol­ “It is recommended that the Centennial Bishop Graves of Shanghai cabled the lowed by dress parade and Vespers. In mark the endeavor to attain at least the the evening Mr. R. A. Ramsey won the Department of Missions on June 6th as • following objectives: follows: declamatory contest, receiving the James “a. At least one hundred new mission­ B. Howe gold medal. “There is no further need for famine aries at home and abroad by Easter of relief; stop sending funds.” On Sunday the Baccalaureate sermon 1922. was delivered by the Very Rev. S. D. At first it had not seemed possible that “b. To complete the enrollment of the the news could be true, since all agencies White of Cleveland, Ohio. first one hundred thousand proportionate On Monday the competitive drill - was had been bending every effort to lueec givers by Easter of 1922. the supposed emergency in the Province won by B. Company, Cadet Jones of Wy- “c. To complete the enrollment of at not, Neb., receiving the medal for the of Chili. Mr. Lamont, chairman of the least one hundred thousand intercessors by American Committee, however,* has as­ best drilled cadet. Easter of 1922. More than forty alumni sat down to certained that due to abundant rains in “d. To select a number of important the famine-stricken acreas and early har­ luncheon together at the club house.