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LO N D O N ♦ M 11,Tufton StAWl M ANCti E STER • 52,Victoria Street Correspondence Solicited Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Editor Associate Editors Irving P. J ohnson r p T J p T IT T r p "V T T 1Q Q F rank E. W ilson George P. A twater Managing Editor I I I Tv V V X X 1 1 J2J 1^ 1^ C. Russell Moodey W illiam B. Spofford Irw in St. J. T ucker -4 National Weekly of the Episcopal Church Vol. XVI. No. 42 JUNE 9, 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 IS R E F R E S H IN G to find clergymen getting away was as badly needed as today,” he said. “ It is a uni­ I from generalities, usually meaningless windjamming, versal need of the teachings of Jesus and the applica­ and instead spiritually interpreting current events. tion of them to our present day problems. The Church Thus Bishop Manning, Bishop Stires, Dr. Bowie, Dr. is facing a great opportunity. We are to make history, Stetson and others have dealt fearlessly with the rotten­ and we shall make it by bringing happiness into the ness of New York political life, insisting that the hearts and lives of the world. No one need fear about pulpit must uphold the hands of those who are attempt­ the future status of the Episcopal Church, but we ing to purge the city of its vileness. The youthful need to do the thing that hurts. Sacrifice is neces­ rector of Trinity, Boston, the Rev. Arthur Lee Kin­ sary.” The Church is facing a great opportunity solving, preaching at the Cathedral of St. John the and it is possible for us to make history. But we Divine, likewise made himself understood. He de­ will not get on with it very fast with such piffling nounced the federal government for its “ fabulous” ex­ generalities. penditures and called the tariff “ the grossest composite of selfishness yet on record.” He said that as a nation, ET H O D IST S, meeting in general convention, we have degenerated into a lot of super-salesmen who M have not hesitated to retrench. Salaries were have sunk to such a plane that we do not hesitate to cut, services curtailed, agencies discontinued. Com­ rig up stocks and bonds with a lot of “ window-dress­ petent observers stated that at least five new bishops ing” and then go into the sticks to sell it to country were needed to supervise the work properly, yet in yokels. He might have added, but didn’t, that city the interest of economy but two were elected. Im­ yokels also had bought a good deal of it. The bank­ portant centers in the States were discontinued, the ruptcy of our cities he attributed solely to the Paris center was abandoned, and work in foreign fields “ inadequate character in public officials” and con­ was curtailed. The salary of the bishops was reduced cluded by stating that we are shot to pieces financially from $7,200 to $6,000, and their retiring pensions were because we are bankrupt morally and ethically. reduced from $3,000 annually to $1,200. Three of the weekly publications of the Methodist Church were E DOUBT NOT that stalwart worshippers left discontinued, though each of them has had a long and W the Cathedral that morning grinding their teeth conspicuous record of service to the church, and the and muttering, “ He had no right to say such things peace commission, which has done notable work during from the pulpit. It is not the place for political the past four years, at a cost of $15,000 annually, has speeches.” For after all one can understand the emo­ been virtually wiped out. If it is true that misery loves tions of the old-time Republican, brought up since company,, officers of our Church struggling to balance boyhood to believe in a high tariff as the solution for budgets will be comforted by this paragraph. economic ills, as he listened to the boyish preacher speak of it as “ the grossest composite of selfishness.” D ELEG A T IO N of the Women’s International To him that was, of course, using the pulpit as a League for Peace and Freedom, undoubtedly the political platform, and what was worse and more to most effective peace organization in the country, called be regretted, using it on the wrong side. But hurt upon politicians in Washington recently, demanding as he might be, once cooled down, we believe he would that peace planks be placed in party platforms. Doro­ agree that it was a better sermon than the sort of thy Detzer, spokesman for the group, declared that thing one often is compelled to listen to at a preach­ the pacifist forces of the country are determined to ing service. Thus the report comes to us of a sermon make a major political issue out of the question of preached by an officer of the National Council, many disarmament. The women advocated the recognition miles from his home base, before a large group of of Russia, a lower tariff, cancellation of debts and Churchmen. “ There never was an age when Jesus reparations, decreased expenditures for military and Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Four THE WITNESS June 9, 1932 naval purposes, entrance into the world court and for the American Memorial Cemetery at Belleau control of traffic in arms. Wood, France, displaying a decorative tree in branches of which are NEW S PA P E R MAN, who is also a churchman placed insignia and coats A and a diocesan editor, was writing a notice early of arms of the American in May about Whitsunday and Pentecost, when, he divisions engaged at Bel­ says, one of the city rectors came in, looked over his leau Wood during the shoulder and remarked, “ Oh, is next Sunday Whit­ World War, surmounted sunday?” Informed that it was, the rector continued, by the great seal of the “ And is that the same as Pentecost, or does it come United States. The chapel a week later?” Enlightened again by the newspaper is a national shrine built man, the rector said, “ Then Whitsunday comes on by the battle monuments Sunday this year?” And being, like Kipling’s hero, commission headed by a man-of-infinite-resource-and-sagacity, he went home General Pershing, on to change the topic of his sermon.