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Prepares boys for college and university. tory, general courses, and secretarial Offers a general cultural education, with Splendid environment and excellent corps of courses. Two years beyond high school. special emphasis on the Classics, Modern teachers. High standard in scholarship and Music, art, expression. Graduates success­ Languages, English, Economics, History, Phil­ athletics. Healthy and beautiful location in ful in college. Well-equipped buildings. osophy, Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics, the mountains of Virginia. New gymnasium, pool. Outdoor life. Rid­ Biology and Pre-Medical, or Pre-Engineering, For catalogue apply to ing. Founded 1843. Catalog. Ophelia S. T. For information apply, The Dean. Rev. Oscar deWolf Randolph, D.D., Rector Carr, A.B., Box A, Staunton. Va. Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuseI and publication. Editor Associate Editors Irving P. Johnson Managing Editor THE WITNESS F rank E. W ilson W illiam B. Spofford James P. De W olfe Literary Editor A National Paper of the Episcopal Church Gardiner M. Day Robert P. Kreitler Vol. XIX. No. 44. JULY 18, 1935 Five Cents a Copy THE WITNESS is_ pubJished 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 A pproach to Christ An Editorial by BISHOP JOHNSON T IS a pity that we cannot approach religion as we matter of philosophical discussion and has all the force I do science and art. In these avocations we do not of a militant crusade, one has no business to stand on draw our inspiration from local sources, nor from our the side lines as an uninterested observer. For better own performance. If the professors in our adjoining or worse the peoples of the earth are going to be vitally colleges are inadequate we do not condemn science but affected by this militant force which imposes its dog­ we go far afield to read Eddington and Einstein and ig­ mas at the price not only of spiritual ideals but of per­ nore the local personalities. If the village band plays sonal liberty. discordant music we dp not belittle music but draw our inspiration from masters of the art. H E great majority of men are governed by emo­ Thus we do in seeking truth and beauty, but in the T tion rather than reason, and are therefore the vic- pursuit of righteousness we shape our theology from tims of demagogues who understand mob psychology, our immediate contacts and govern our conduct by the rather than disciples of high principles embodied in effectiveness of the local minister and the foibles of the human leaders. Just as science is at the bottom of our adjacent congregation. The reason for this is evident. material comforts and art is at the foundation of our It is due to the fact that the pursuit of goodness de­ aesthetic culture, so, whether you like it or not, reli­ mands of us certain moral obligations which involve gion or anti-religion is at the base of our social conduct. personal sacrifice. Wherever the individual is required The mere fact that Soviet Russia uses the slogan that to do something because he believes something he finds 'there is no God’ demonstrates the fact that there is d it easier to question the belief than he does to overcome dynamic power in the effect of religion upon the social his inertia. What he wants is an alibi and he finds it order. Of course when you mention religion the in the habits of those who surround him. What he scientist is apt to become unscientific and to look upon ought to' realize is that moral and spiritual truths are religious phenomena as less important than the habits just as vital if the environment is unfavorable as they of bees. But, an irritated scientist is not a good scien­ are if one is blessed with the most virtuous neighbors. tist. As some one has well remarked, a man who It would be just as sensible to say that music is no despises science or religion is neither scientific or re­ good because the village band plays badly as to say re­ ligious, for the two are so intermingled in God’s world ligion is no good because one’s neighbors are a bunch that they cannot be separated without doing violence to of hypocrites.