NEW YORK’S ANNIVERSARY Circulation Office: 6140 Cottage Grove Avenue, Chicago. Editorial and Advertising Office: 826 Tribune Building, New York City. Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. SCHOOLS OF THE CHURCH SCHOOLS ©tj* (itttmtl ©LjmUigtrai HE best Secondary Schools in SAINT MARY’S HALL &emtttarg T the country are maintained Protestant Episcopal. 69th year. Junior and by the Episcopal Church. If you Senior High School. Accredited college prep­ aration and comprehensive general courses. Three-year undergraduate course are thinking of sending a son or Junior College. Beautiful new buildings, of prescribed and elective study. modernly equipped. Gymnasium and out-of- a daughter away to school this door sports. Catalog. Miss Katharine Caley, Fourth-year course for gradu­ Fall and care to have information A. B., Box W , Faribault, Minn. ates, offering larger opportunity for specialization. about these schools merely send Provision for more advanced a note to the editorial office of work, leading to degrees of S.T.M. THE WITNESS, 826 .Tribune CHATHAM HAL and S.T.D. Building, New York. Age, part A Church School^ in of country preferred and price Southern Virginia ADDRESS for Girls range will help us to get you Rev. Edmund J. Lee, D.D. THE DEAN more accurate information. Rector Chatham Virginia 4 Chelsea Square New York City ST. AUGUSTINE’S COLLEGE Far Catalogue Address the Dean Raleigh, North Carolina An approved Church College for Negro Youth AI NT JAMES SCHOOL offering courses leading to degrees of B.A., Washington County, Maryland and B.S., College Preparatory (last two years Episcopal Theological School of High School) ; also Training Schools for School for Boys Nurses and for Women Church and Welfare CAMBRIDGE. MASSACHUSETTS Workers. The Mother of Church Schools on the English Plan Affiliation with Harvard University offers For catalog and information snusual opportunities in allied fields, such as Address (The Registrar) Adrian H. Onderdonk, M. A. philosophy, psychology, history, Headmaster sociology, etc. For Catalogue Address the Dean Berkeley Divinity School DIVINITY SCHOOL IN HOLDERN ESS New Haven. Connecticut In the White Mountains. College Prepara­ PHILADELPHIA Affiliated with Yale University tory and General Courses. Music and Crafts Address DEAN W . P. LADD Ftor boys 12-19. All sports including riding. Undergraduate and Graduate Courses 86 Sachem Street 200 acres of woods. New fireproof building. Privileges at University of Pennsylvania Individual instruction. Home atmosphere Address: Rev. Edric A. Weld, Rector ®KAN BARTLETT, 42nd and Locust Streets Box W Plymouth, N. H. The Protestant Episcopal SHATTUCK Theological Seminary in Virginia » » SCHOOL « « CATHEDRAL CHOIR SCHOOL A church school for boys, with high stand­ New York City For Catalogue and other information ing in sound scholarship and development of address the Dean manly character and Christian citizenship. A boarding school for the forty boys ol REV. WALLACE E. ROLLINS, D.D. College preparatory. Military system. 18 the Choir of the Cathedral of Saint John buildings. All sports. 74th year. the Divine. Careful musical training and Theological Seminary Alexandria, Va. Address the Rector, daily singing at the cathedral services. Small Shattuck School, Faribault, Minn. classes mean individual attention and high standards. The School has its own building and playgrounds in the Close. Fee— $250.60 per annum. Boys admitted 9 to 11. Voice test and scholarship examination. Addresr K F l i D F P h a i The Precentor, Cathedral Choir School, IlC lilr E ll Kenosha. Cathedral Heights, New York City. 4 a H tM * Christian School with the highest 6 itk 0—deaaie rating. Upper School prepares («V A Church School for Girls with i YEAR Bdwwlty or business. ROTC. Every modern modern plan of education. SAINT AGNES CHURCH SCHOOL ffipsgpoeent. Junior School from six years, college preparatory ana general courses. FOR G7RLS Ipssfsaother. Separate building. Catalogue, High scholastic record, strong faculty. Pre­ S*. J7 j . Wicker, Fork Union, Virginia. pares for colleges East and West. General New fire proof building ideally situated is courses include: Domestic Science, Music, 33 acres of the best residential section out­ Sculpture, Painting, Costume Design, Interior side the city of Albany, New York. Excellent Decoration, Emphasis on Current Events in college preparatory record. Moderate price. Sports of all kinds. ALL SAINTS’ COLLEGE relation to History. Vicksburg, Mississippi Development of leisure interests by full Miss Blanche Pittman, M.A. Loudonville Road Albany, N. Y. An episcopal school for girls. Accredited athletic program as well as Dramatics, Choir, high school and Junior College. Music, Art, Studio, Music, Shop, etc. Expression. Sports, riding and swimming. Junior School— Grades 3 to 8. Progressive For catalogue, address TRINITY SCHOOL methods. Onekama, Michigan. A country boarding Mary Leslie Newton, M.A., Dean For cetalog address The SISTERS OF ST. school for boys nine to sixteen. Semi-mili­ MARY. Box 25-E, Kenosha, Wisconsin. tary. Fee $55 per month covers cost of uni­ form and all expenses. Also Summer Camp. BECKFORD SCHOOL ST. F A IT H ’ S SCHOOL Tutorial system of instruction. Pupils may Day and Boarding School enter any time. Write for catalogue to Rev, Woodstock, Virginia F. L. Carrington, rector. Authorized by the Episcopal Church, A school for younger boys. Second grade Chartered under the Board of Regents. through Junior High School. In Shenandoah Kindergarten to College. Special Courses— Valley. Limited enrollment. Fifty dollars monthly. Art, Music, French, Secretarial. 44th year. Tuition $450 year. Opens Sept. 19th. 1934. EDMUND BURKE WHELAN, Apply to Rev. Dr. F. ALLEN SISCO, Headmaster Saratoga Springs, N. Y. i u e t r i H a U Virginia Episcopal School An Episcopal girls’ school of fine old TRINITY COLLEGE traditions and high standards in the beau­ Hartford, Conn. Lynchbuig, Virginia tiful Valley of Virginia. College prepara­ 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-Engineer­ For catalogue apply to ing. Founded 1843. Catalog. Ophelia S. T. ing. 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 reuse and publication. Editor Associate Editors I r v i n g P . J o h n s o n Managing Editor THE WITNESS F r a n k E. W il s o n W i l l i a m B . S p o f fo r d J a m e s P. D e W o lf h Literary Editor A National Paper of the Épiscopal Church R o b e r t P. K r e it l e r G a r d i n e r M. D a y Vol. XIX No. 35 M AY 9, 1935 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. N ew Y ork Observes 150th A nniversary By HARRISON ROCKWELL O TING the title above some reader may ask, ish was the place of meeting of this organizing group. N “ Only 150 years? I should have said that the Later reports refer to meeting again at St. Paul’s in Church in New York is much older than that.” Such such a way as to leave little question as to the scene a surmise is correct. The founding- of our communion of the first convention. St. Paul’s, built in 1766, was here in New York goes back to 1664, to the estab­ then a comparatively new edifice, having had but 20 lishment in the fort of a work of the Church of Eng­ years of use. To-day, in its 170th year, the venerable land. Thirty-three years later, in 1697, the rapidly chapel, now the oldest religious edifice in the city, growing community saw the founding of Trinity par­ stands its ground like a veteran sentinel against the ish. And after this nearly a century elapsed before values of the commercial interests that surround and there was effected the organization of the diocese, the tower high above it. In 1785 Trinity Church had not sesquicentennial of which we are commemorating this been rebuilt following the destruction of its first build­ year. So in conjunction with this observance it should ing by fire, so that it would have been natural and not be overlooked that the Church has ministered to convenient to use St. Paul’s for the convention, just this community for 271 years. as was done for the service in conjunction with the It was one hundred and fifty years ago this sum­ inaugural of President Washington. mer, on June 22nd, 1785, to be exact, when the The amazing growth of our Church’s work in this Church in the then City of New York was served by area is evident in many ways, but one of the most Trinity parish alone, that it seemed good to those striking is to compare the little body of Churchmen pioneer Churchmen to bring about for the furtherance that made up its first convention at St.