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L O N D O N ■ itTuftonSt. S.W.t. noted for their superior tonal qualities M A N CH ESTER • 3 2 VictoriaSt. and mechanical reliability Correspondence Solicited Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Editor Associate Editors Irving P. Johnson Frank E. W ilson George P. A twater Managing Editor John R. Oliver W illiam B. Spofford THE WITNESS Irwin St. J. Tucker A National Weekly of the Episcopal Church Vol. X V I No. 23 JAN U AR Y 28, 1932 Five Cents a Copy THE WITNESS is published weekly by the Episcopal Church Publishing Company, 6140 Cottage Grove Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. The subscription price is $2.00 a year ; in bundles of ten or more for sale at the church, the paper selling at five cents, we bill quarterly at three cents a copy. Entered as Second Class Matter April 3, 1919, at the postoffice at Chicago, Illinois, under act of March 3, 1879. T he Hydra Raises a New Head By RUSSELL S. HUBBARD Student Pastor at South Dakota University ROM time to time we think that we have killed N A sense the clergy of the Church are not to blame F that monster, the idea that there is any conflict I for this lack of appreciation of the techniques and between religion and science. But just as we think knowledge of the social sciences, for there is a woeful we have slain it, behold another head grows in the lack of teaching upon the subject in our seminaries. place of the one we have just cut off. The recent advances in this direction in some of our Whatever conflict there has been between religion seminaries hardly scratch the surface. Robert L. and science has been in the field of the physical sci­ Kelly states the amount of such training in our semin­ ences. Although difficulties still remain in the minds aries in 1924, and his findings are not a matter for of some people, the real difficulties have been solved. self-congratulation on the part of the Church. ( Theo­ The theologians have learned from the scientists to logical Education in America.) Dr. William S. Keller, reinterpret their idea of the creation, finding that the director of the Cincinnati Summer School in Social new knowledge has only added depth to their thought Service, names six fields in which this training should of God and His creation. The scientists themselves, be given: as the bishops assembled at Lambeth pointed out, have I. Basic study of life in our present Western world. become the best allies of the Church in solving the II. The family—love, courtship, marriage and difficulties, as they introduce an almost mystical strain parenthood. into their theories of the Universe. III. Working knowledge of normal and morbid Unfortunately the leaders and thinkers of the Church psychology. have become so engrossed in looking up into the IV. Principles of case work. heavens that they have all but fallen into a pit. For V. Methods of cooperation with existing agencies while physical scientists have been delving into the and the constructive relief of poverty. mysteries of the creation, the social scientists have V I. Human factors in industry. taken the torch of our duty to our neighbor and car­ How many of us priests in the Church have had ried it such a distance that we of the Church have this training, unless we received it in college, or all but lost sight of it. Not that the Church has for­ through our own efforts obtained it after we had fin­ gotten that she must be concerned with the duty of ished our training? Unless the student has had this a man to his neighbor. She has not done that. But training in college, he does not have the proper equip­ the many workers in the social sciences have discov­ ment to enable him to handle the many cases that come ered techniques, and have found out facts that too to his attention without serious blunders. many in the Church seem hardly to know exist. But the result is even more serious than the bungling It is not enough that these facts and techniques of cases on the part of the untrained parish priest. should be known to a few of the leaders of the Church. The students in our colleges are getting this training They so intimately concern the life of the Church in which the clergy have not had. One of the deans at every one of our parishes. The criminal who has jusi one of our state universities recently made the state­ left the cell; the man who comes asking for help for ment that thirty years ago he expected to see the stu­ his family;—how do we treat him? All too often dents crowding more and more into the courses on there is little if any knowledge of good social method the physical sciences, but what was his surprise to displayed in our parishes. All too often there is an find them leaving these and crowding the courses on “ entente cordiall” established with the secular social social sciences. It is not the degree in physical sciences agencies—ideally excellent, but practically ineffective that is being introduced, but the degree in social —and nothing more. science. Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Four T H E WITNESS January 28, 1932 The students thus trained scatter into the parishes between the physical sciences and religion the subject of our country. They hear sermons about the treat­ has been brought out, into the open and discussed. ment of unfortunate people, of our duty to our neigh­ All too often such discussion has appeared on the bor, which reveal the lack of training and knowledge front page, assuming an importance that it did not of the preachers in those techniques which they them­ deserve. In the relation of the Church and the social selves have studied. The preacher may think he is sciences there are signs of a severance of relations dealing with his subject in a Christlike manner, and without discussion. There are already signs that the probably is according to 'his lights, but where he has social scientists are going on their own way without not taken the trouble to find out the best methods in the Church, without considering its ability to assist handling a case, the inference is that he does not really or fearing its power of opposition; too often they care enough to find out—and all the fine words he seem to have lost respect for religious forces. They says are discounted. No preacher can help but handle judge not infrequently that the Church is either indif­ moral questions occasionally; but a brief glance through ferent to or intolerant of their findings and their Hadfield’s Psychology and Morals will convince him labors because of inherited traditions.