i3d IS istî s S2S The Witness t n# A9y Vol. V. No. 39. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, MAY 21, 1921 $1.50 A YEAR Bishop Williams Stirs Clergy at Dr. W. T. Manning Consecrated Annual Convention - Bishop of New York The Church Must Stand for Justice Regardless Beautiful and Dignified Service Attended by of Consequences to Herself Dignitaries of the Church Bishop Williams of Michigan delivered The Consecration of Dr. Manning as a stirring address before the 88th con­ Bishop of New York was attended by an vention which met in Ann Arbor May New York Elects Suffragans extraordinary amount of dignity and 11th and 12th. He warned against the beauty. It is the first time in many a danger of materialism as a result of the year since a man was actually consecrated Nation-Wide Campaign, and then launch­ Bishop Arthur S. Lloyd, rector of Bishop, for hither to, since a time beyond ed into a summary of current events St. Barthalomew’s Church at White the memory of most men, there was which bear directly on the Churches: Plains, has been elected as one of the always an assistant to succeed. Although He said in part: suffragan bishops of the Protestant it is said that six of New York’s ten “The Church must have a message to Episcopal Diocese of New York, asked bishops had been rector of Trinity, Dr. deliver as well as a service to render. for by Bishop William Thomas Man­ Manning is the first since the Civil War. And you and I, my brethren, must de­ ning, when he was consecrated head So everything tended to make his conse­ liver that message and prepare ourselves cration a great civic as well as religious diligently and prayerfully for that deliv­ of the diocese Wednesday. The Rev. Dr. Herbert Shipman, rector of the function. The program in itself indi­ ery. We must consecrate to the office cates its distinguished character. of preaching our best gifts kept at their Church of the Heavenly Rest, New York, was elected as second suffragan. Consecrators— The Right Rev. Daniel best. We must be men of devotion and Sylvester Tuttle, D.D., LL.D., D.C.L., pre­ hard work in the prayer closet and the siding Bishop; the Right Rev. Boyd Vin­ study if we are to be men of power in cent, D.D.., L.L.D.,. Bishpp .¥of ..Southern the pulpit. And that suggests my Second Rofiian Catholic Hierarchy, of various Ohio; the Right Rev. William Lawrence, counsel. Congregational Associations, the Social D.D., LL.D., Bishop of Massachusetts. We must not only have a message, but Creed of the Churches, promulgated by a message for the day, the day in which the Federal Council and since adopted by Presenting Bishops—The Right Rev. we live and in which the Lord has laid the National Y. M. C. A. in its conven­ Arthur Crawshay Alliston Hall, D.D., ,His 'burden upon us. And never was tion in Detroit, the report of the Com­ LL.D., Bishop of Vermont; the Right Rev. there a day in which it required more mission on Christianity and Industrial Philip Mercer Rhinelander, D.D., LL.D., wisdom to discover the message or more Relations appointed by the Archbishops of D.C.L., Bishop of Pennsylvania. courage to deliver it. Canterbury and York, the Reports of the P re a c h e r — The Right Rev. Thomas It is a day of disillusionment, when committees of the Lambeth Conference Frank Gailor, D.D., Bishop of Tennessee men, bitter with disappointment in the on Christianity and Industrial Relations and President of the Council. failure of high visions hitherto cherished, and Christianity and International Rela­ Attending Presbyters—The Rev. Wil­ turn in wrath upon all new seers and tions and the resolutions of the confer­ liam Whaley, Bellinger, D.D., L.H.D., phophets and sometimes stone and cruci­ ences thereon, etc., etc. Out of such de- D.C.L., Vicar of St. Agnes’ Chapel, Trin­ fy them. It is a day of hysteria and clai’gtions the lines of the Church’s mes­ ity Parish, New York; the Rev. Milo Hud­ panic fear. Nerves are on edge every­ sage, for the limes are emerging. There son Gates, D.D., Vicar of the Chapel of where. Men normally cool, sane and bal­ is the message for the prevailing social the Intercession Trinity Parish, New anced in judgment are seeing red and., are discontent and industrial unrest. York. afraid of their very shadows. In none of these utterances does the R e g istra r— The Rev. George Francis The foundations of the world order are Church take sides with any particular Nelson, D.D., Secretary of the House of out of course and the structures of civili­ “isms,” “capitalism,” “socialism,” or least Bishops and Honorary Canon of the Ca­ zation are tottering and reeling. Many of all of course with syndicalism or Bol- thedral. with common consent look to the-Church hevism which find only universal abhor­ of Jesus Christ as the only stable insti­ rence for its outrages. In none of them Master of Ceremonies— The Rev. E. tution in the midst of this shifting cfiaos, are specific social, economic or industrial Briggs Nash, B.D., Canon Sacrist of the and to the religion and gospel of Jesus nostrums advocated. They contain only Cathedral. Chrit as offering the only effective and for the most part sane, well-balanced, L itan y — The Right Rev. Arthur Selden final solvent of our crucial problems. And carefully thought out statements of plain Lloyd, D.D., Rector of St. Bartholomew’s yet they are often afraid of what the simple Christian principles in their bear­ Church, White Plains, New York. gospel and religion may have to say and ing on the present situation. Readers , of Testimonials resent the message when uttered. They assert, as for instance, does the I. The Certificate of Election—The The Church is groping for her message. resolution of the Lambeth Conference, the Rev. Charles Lewis Slattery, D.D., Rector Prophetic voices, hitherto solitary, have fundamental, and essential right and duty of Grace Church, New York. been gathered into chorsues of official of the Church and her ministry to speak II. The Canonical Testimonial—Mr. and semi-official utterances. A literature boldly and plainly on all moral 'issues, George Zabriskie, Chancellor of the Dio­ of such utterances is accumulating. Bare­ all issues of righteousness and justice in­ cese of New York. ly to name those uterances would make volved in any question economic, indus­ III. The Certificate of Ordinations— quite a lengthy list—for example: trial and social. The Right Rev. Alfred Harding, D.D, The platform of the Canadian Wesleyan They declare in most instances that LL.D., Bishop of Washington. and the Canadian Presbyterian Assembly, so long as the state of warfare neces­ IV. The Consents of the Standing Com­ the declaration of the Methodist Episcopal sarily involved in our present industrial m ittees— The Rev. Ernest Milmore Stires, Bishops, of'the Catholic Welfare Commis­ system continues both sides in the conflict D.D., L.H.D., President of the Standing sion, and the War Commission of the (Continued on page 5) Committee of the Diocese of New York. Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. 1 T H E WITNESS GENERAL NEWS OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH Dr. Drury Declines there has developed some organized effort consists of conventionalized foliage of the Rectorship of Trinity Church to secure Church publicity, but for lack of lilies. The simplicity both of design and The Rev. Samuel S. Drury declined the any general understanding conditions are treatment produces an effect of remark­ rectorship of Trinity Church, New York, more or less chaotic. It is believed that a able beauty. The north aisle gate is given and will remain as Rector of St. Paul’s favorable time has arrived for making a by Mr. and Mrs. P. A. MacDonald in School, Concord, N. H. It is understood common effort to solve the problems in­ memory of their daughter and grandson that Dr. Manning will retain Trinity’s volved and to reach some agreement as to Mrs. Elsie MacDonald Hammond and rectorship, until the fall, although many principles and methods. It is felt also that Harry Wm. Hammond, Jr, The south hope for the early election of Dr. Milo only by conferences of this sort can the gate is given by Mrs. J. G. Hamblin and H. Gates, the most popular of Trinity’s dioceses and general headquarters discover her two sons in memory of Joseph G. vicars. The declination of Dr. Drury has how to be mutually helpful. Hamblin and Louis W. Hamblin. had a curious public effect. People were The conferences will be informal. There as astonished at it as if a man had de­ will be no fixed program of addresses and Boys Attend Diocesan clined to be Archbishop of Canterbury or papers, but a round table discussion of C onvention President of the United States. With that such subjects as Church advertising, local The- choir boys and troop 8 of the goes a sense of uplift that in a great and general; local and general news bu­ Boy Scouts left Pittsburgh, Kansas, at instance it is proved that the clergy do reaus; diocesan publicity, through diocesan 5 o’clock Thursday evening, May 5th, for not run after high positions or large sal­ papers and otherwise; parochial publicity, Topeka, to attend the opening of the aries, and that they do have a sense of through parish papers and otherwise; how Diocesan convention at Grace Cathedral.