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When Winter’s hosts first sound their slow retreat,
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| Personal Notes

 

 

The Rt. Rev. Robert Carter Jett, D.
D., Bishop of the Diocese of Southwest-
ern Virginia, left on Wednesday, Janu—
ary 25, to attend a meeting in Rich—
mond on Thursday, after which he will
be away from his office for a vacation
and rest of three or four weeks.

The Rev. John A. \Vinslow arrived
in Dante, Virginia, January 20, and be—
gan his work as assistant to the Dean
of Associate Missions, the Rev. H. H.
Young of Bluefield. While having his
headquarters at Dante. Mr, Winslow
will fill variOUS appointments in other
parts of the field. Mr. Winslow comes
to_.S'outhwestern Virginia from Colum-
bus, Ohio, w1here for the past three years
he has served as Minister-in-Charge of
St. Andrew’s Church and Assistant at
St. Paul’s.

The engagement has been announced
of the Rev. David (Tady \Vright, Jr., 0f

Waynesboro, Virginia, and Miss Mil-
dred 1Cochran, daughter of Mr. and

Mrs. Joseph Cochran of “Folly”, near
Stannton, Virginia.

'The Rev. C. J. Ryley has been called
as rector at Luray, Virginia.

‘The Rev. Frederick A. Sapp, miniS—
ter charge of the churches in Bruns-
wick County, Virginia, has accepted a
call to St. Andrew’s Church. :Hilton Vil-
lage, Virginia. in the Diocese of South—
ern Virginia. and will be in residence on

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All

March 1 in the Rectory at 41’. Main
Street.
The Rev. William I‘. S. Lander.

called to the rectorship of the Church
of the Good Shepherd, Rosemont, Penn—
sylvania, from Holy Trinity, West Palm
Beach, in the Diocese of South Florida.
assumed charge on January 1, succeed-
ing the Rev. Thomas A. Sparks, who re-
signed to accept a call to the Diocese of
New York.

The Rev. Paul D. Wilbur has resigned
as minister in charge of. St. Peter’s
Church, Niagara Falls, in the Diocese
of Western New York. For the pres—
ent, pending the complete convales—
ence of his wife, who is recovering
from a very serious operation, his ad-
dress will be 274 Bedford Street, Stam-
ford, Connecticut.

The Rev. James MacLaughlin, for the
past six years rector of St. Paul’s
Church, Evanston, Wyoming, with his
wife and daughter, have left the District
for their new home in Long Beach, Cali-
fornia.

The Rev. Mr. MacLaughlin has retired
on pension after thirty-nine years of
service in the ministry. He came to
Wyoming in 1923 and served in Green
River until 1926, moving from there to
Evanston.

The Rev. J. D. Miller, for a num-
ber of years rector of St. Paul’s,
Louisburg, North Carolina, recently re-
signed. on account of having reached the
age of retirement. He will continue to
live in Louisburg. Mr. Miller has had
a long and useful ministry, a good part
of the time in Greensboro, N. C., where
he served two pastorates at St. Andrew’s
Church.

' ORDINATIONS.
The Rev. Frank L. Levy was or-
dained priest by Bishop Morris in Christ

 

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Church Cathedral, New Orleans, Louis—
iana, on Wednesday, January 25, at 9
A. M., at the opening of the Diocesan
Council. The Rev. W. S. Slack preached
the ordination council sermon.

Frank Frantz Snyder was ordained
Deacon in Christ Church, Coudersport,
Pennsylvania, by the Rt. Rev. Wyatt
Brown, D. 1)., Litt. D., Bishop of Har-
risburg, on January 18, 1933. He was
presented by the Ven. Harold E.
Schmaus. Canon Hiram R. Bennett
preached the sermon. Mr. Snyder will
become vicar of Christ Church, Cond-

dersport. Pennsylvania, with address
«Christ Church Rectory, C(nidcrsport,

sport, Pennsylvania.

The Rev. Charles Granville Hamilton
was ordained to the Priesthood by the
Rt. Rev. Theodore D. Bratton, in the
Church of the Incarnation, West Point,
Mississippi, on January 25. The Rev.
Duncan M. Gray of Columbus presented
the candidate, the Rev. \Villiam G.
Christian of Meridian preached the or-
dination sermon. Mr. Hamilton was or-

dained to the Diaconate in the same
church a year ago.
The church in which Mr. Hamilton

was ordained was built during the last
year. The foundation upon which it was
erected was built by the Rev. Lundy
Sykes when he was minister at West
Point some years ago. Mr. Sykes .had
the pleasure of taking part in the ser—
vices.

Mr. Hamilton is also in charge of the
churches in Tupelo, Aberdeen and in
Okolona,

 

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The Rev. David Coleman \Vatson was
advanced to the Priesthood by Bishop
I-l'elfenstein on December 21, 1932, in
St. Barnabas' Church, Sykesville, Mary—

land. He was presented by his former
rector, the Rev. Robert E. Browning,

rector of the Church of the Ascension
and Prince of Peace, and the sermon
was preached by the. Rev. Philip J. Jen-
sen, of St. Thomas Church, larrisen
Forest. Mr. \Vatson will continue in
charge of Holy Trinity parish, Carroll
County, Maryland.

 

DEATHS.

The Rev. Arthur Romeyn Gray, D. 1).,
member of the staff of the Cathedral
of St. John the Di\inc since 1930, died
unexpectedly at his 1101110 in New York
(‘ity on \Vednesday. January 11. 110
had been at his ollice in the Old Synod
House, Cathedral Close, the day be-
fore.

Dr. Gray was professor of Apologetics
for the University of the South from
1901 to 1911, and University Chaplain
from 1908 to 1911. lie then came to
New York City where. he was for nine-
teen years connected with the work of
the National Council with headquarters
at the Church Missions House. From
1911 to 1917 he was educational Sec—
retary and from 1917 to 1930 Secretary
for Latin America. He was the author

of a number of text books for use in
mission study classes and church
schools.

Funeral services were held in the

(‘athedral on Saturday morning, Janu-
ary 14, the Bishop of the. Diocese oili-
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Letters to the I
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all times welcome communications ea:-
pressing opinions on the various topics
which are engaging the attention of the
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THE FELLO‘VSHIP OF THE

INCARNATION.

Mr. Editor:

A small group of full-time workers in
religious education in our Church have
organized themselves into a fellowship,
The Fellowship of the Incarnation (F.
O. I.). The members of the fellowship
have an interest in social reconstruction,
the general point of view of progressive
education and a sincere devotion to the
teachings of our Lord and the traditions
of the Anglican communion. I am glad
to hear that this small group, which has
been up to this time completely informal
and unknown, is now opening itself to a
wider membership and is by way of be—
coming a significant movement in the
Church. I am glad to hear this because
I am more and more convinced that it
is to voluntary associations such as this
that we must look for leadership in
meeting the complex and difficult issues
that are facing us in the work of the
Church.

Adelaide Case

Teachers College

Columbia University

S( )CIA L SERVI CE.

 

Mr. Editor:

With pleasure do I comment on some
of the matters covered in the SOUTH-
ERN CHURCHMAN for January 21.
And may I say without too much
“foam."—-—-it seems to be in the air,

—that apparently the SOUTHERN
CHURCHMAN is getting better with
each issue.

I should like. if I may, to connect the
subject-matter of two articles, namely,
the Rev. Dr. Macartney’s comments on
the Laymen's Missions Report and Mrs.
June Purcell Guild’s splendid article on
Social Service work. Both matters seem
to be infiltrated with “Modernism,” and
the answer in both cases would be more
apparent if the matters were considered
in the light either of Low Church or
High Church evangelicalism. I surely
do agree with Dr. Macartney in his com—
ments on the Laymen’s Missions Report;
and Mrs. Cluild’s thought-provoking
article could only be improved by the
addition of a few answers to her many
questions.

My social service experience has cov-
ered work in three dioceses, \V’asliington
Southern Ohio and Rhode Island. In
this city I am a lowly Second—Vice—Pres—
ident of the Board of the Associated
Charities. This body was originally
created. not merely as an association
for the palliation of poverty. but to
study each individual case and see how
the man or woman might help to work
out of the plight in which found. Due

to the pressure of about twenty times
as much work, twenty times as many
applicants. the Associated Charities has
become little more than a dole center;
it is practically impossible, even with

 

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voluntary assistants, to properly inquire
into more than a fraction of the appli-
cants conditions. The Central Case In-
dex is, however, a great help.

In Social Service work the “Mod-
ernism” comes in through the timidity
of some workers to realize the help that
a definite religion will give, not only to
the worker but to the recipient. Some
workers are afraid of spoiling their
work, or of taking advantage of the
applicant, if the matter of religion is
introduced. As a matter of fact, the
very latest and most up-to—date dictum
on the subject is that religion should
most certainly be used,—not necessarily
that of the worker, but any religion held
on to by the needy applicant. Psy~
chology as well as Christianity now tells
the social worker that to rehabilitate
the spirit of the needy one all the re-
ligion possible must be used; and that
the social worker should aid the appli-
cant in bringing into play all the spir-
itual powers the applicant has had im-
planted or can raise for the purpose. 1
in my social visitations, both in the
home and in public hospitals, have
almost always had a ready response to
the religious stimulus—even if the
“patient” claimed to be in a most hope-
less state spiritually. In talking to JeWS
and those persons I do not know, I some-

times use the term “Lord,”’ which is
always acceptable. In speaking to
Christians, or supposed Christians, of

whatever creed or cult, the Lord be-
comes “the Lord Jesus.” No Christian,
social worker or not, need be ashamed
to be known as working in the hope and
the strength of Jesus Christ our Saviour.
A definite religious belief helps every—
one, physician or patient. And Christ—
ians should certainly know and teach
that there is but one true Saviour; and
that all kindness may be summed up in
working “in the name of the Father,
and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.”
(Rem) Thom ~Williamson.
Pawtucket. R. 1.,
“OI'R- PHYSICAL HERITAGE IN
CHRIST.”
Mr. Editor:
I thank the Southern Churchman for

 

my acquaintance with Rev. Kenneth
MacKenzie. His book “Our Physical
Heritage in Christ.” Fleming Revel]

Company, I find very helpful.

So many put health first! But this
writer puts the Lord Jesus Christ first.
He is so sweet-spirited. one cannot help
loving him. And he shows us how to
pray for health in the right way.

I lent a copy of the book to a conserv—
ative Presbyterian clergyman and be
thanked me saying: “I have read it with
great interest and with profit.” It is
not a book to read hurridly: I keep
it near my Bible and always I find a
paragraph helpful, inspiring and prac—
tical.

(Mrs. E. 0.) Grace \V. Harrison.
“IT IS NO“? HIGH TIME."

Mr. Editor:

At this time, the blindness of our re-
ligious leaders is nearly equal to that
of the blindness of sinners. Can they
not all see that the time has come to
hide away their religious differences
and put on a solidified front against the

forces of evil?
It is new high time to out behind us
denominational and factional differ-

ences and bickerings and stop dissipat-
ing our Christian energy and powers
and combine the one general and all
powerful name of Christian and with
this solid battle. front fight through
the crisis of good against evil. With
the entire structure of civilization tot-
tering. we can well afford to forget
seetarianism and for a few years forget

 

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our denominational names, combining
in on‘e great body to fight forward for
the salvation of mankind.
Randolph Rosewell Page.
Columbia, S. C.

Thoughts for
the Thoughtful

 

 

 

 

 

 

In prayer it is better to have a heart
without words than words without a
heart.—John Bunyan.

To worry is wicked though people do
not generally recognize it as a sin.

Again and again I have been tempted
to give up the struggle but always the
figure of that strange man hanging on
His cross sends me back to my work
again—George Tyrell.

The Pharisees thought that there
were only two attitudes to take on sin-
ners—condemnation and condonation.
It was the great discovery of Jesus that
there was another—rede1nption.+—John

Baillie.

Faith is courage to go forward in
the path of obedience, doingtyour best

'with what you have and trusting God to

back your best with His almighty

'power.—Selected.

It’s not what you’d do with a million,
If riches e’er be your lot;
But what are you doing at present
With the dollar and a quarter you’ve
got? ——~Exchange.

His name is a trust. Speak it in the
company of men and women. Its appeal
is unmistakable. The world must bear
it, for though there be many teachers,
there is but one Savior.—Ro~bert Mac-
Crowan.

If by the exercise of my will, I en—
(low material things around me with
the best uses, there is inevitably a re-
action upon myself. In this work and
labor, in the direction and the pur-
pose, I myself become of greater human
value.——Char1es Herbert.

What. have we to take to~our friends
across the sea which will stand in the
fierce heat of today’s refining, other
than Jesus Christ? He is our dynamic
and our apologetic for the missionary
task—Stephen J. Corey.

A man can avoid making up his mind,
but he cannot avoid making up his
life. Those who in religion do not de-
cide, thereby decide against religion.
Religious faith is a positive achieve-
ment, and he who does not deliberately
choose, loses it.——I—Iarry E. Fosdick.

He clothes the lilies of the field—
He sees the sparrow’s fall;

Assured am I our Father hears
His children when they call;

And knowu to him are all their needs—-
His sight is never dim;

And nothing good does He withold
From those who trust in Him.

—Willa Hoey.

Life is what we are. alive to. It is
not length, but breadth. To be alive
only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money
making, and not to goodness and kind-
ness, purity and love, history, poetry,
music. flowers. stars. God and eternal
hope. is to be all but dead.——Babcock.

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Leadership of the Church:

In times like the present of uncertainty and doubt,
the Church must of necessity assert her leadership and
the question is what kind of leadership shall that be’.’

We have as Church people been trailing in our main
purpose—the evangelization of mankind. Our leader-
ship has been in recent years more of the type of fol-
lowing the methods of America’s commercial lite and
translating them to Church affairs. There has been
nothing wrong in all of this and materially we have
advanced greatly, but. mere physical expansion is not
what the Churchwas founded to perform and now
that our doubts of our ability and methods in all walks
of life are evident, the real methods of personal evan-
gelism and vital religion of experience, which only the
Church is equipped to give, must be emphasized.

The cry today from ‘men’s hearts is a plea to show
them our God and to make Him real in their lives.

Of course there will be those who will. place the
blame 011 the general public and say that for years the
Church has tried to do just that and the public has been
loath to accept such leadership. There is much truth in
such a statement, but we will only make the correct,
emphasis whenwe are willing to admit our own errors
and sins of omission and say frankly that we who have
been the Church 's representatives have neglected
greatly the emphasis upon the spiritual and have placed
the emphasis upon the material.

There are many signs of hopet‘ulnms in the present.
Such work as is being done by the National Commis-
sion on Evangellization is an example. Every seminary
is laying stress upon the personal religious life of its
student body. P'ayer groups and schools ol‘ prayer
are much more common in parish churches than they
were three years ago.

Our leadership can only be exerted when we em-
phasize that in which we move and have our being,
the practice of personal religion based upon a clear
knowledge of God.

Prayer as a Living Force:

The astonishing thing about asserting our leadership
along lines of personal religion is to find the huge ig-
norance of even our best laity and sometimes the clergy
also. We can be compared to Dr. 311tler’s example of
the group of savage islanders who found a watch on
the seashore. They admire it. its glistening case of
gold was considered an object of adoration and wor-
ship. They treasured it. in fact, they did evarything
fine about it except to use it—~and its use depended
upon removal of their ignorance.

And so we tind religious people who admire religion
and even adore it and worship in its presence but never
use it.

To many. prayer is only something that is a last
desperate method of gaining what; human knowledge
and skill cannot get. To others it is a sentimental relic
ol? the days of the nursery and how often we read that
a man always used the prayer learned at his mother’s
knee. As Mr. Taylor of the College of Preachers says,
spiritually we are content to remain dressed as a nine
year old child.

Our sermons have been reviews of the news of the
day rather than inspirational challenges to amend our
lives spiritually. The teaching ministry has been often
confined to a few minutes of Sunday School and a re-
view ol‘ the Catechism for a confirmation class. And
now that real knowledge of God is longed for, we in
the (‘hurch must be prepared to teach the truer mean-
ings of prayer and the necessity for regular spiritual
exercise.

We do not like to be numbered among those who only
look to the past for guidance, but we do wonder what
has become of the old time Protestant that believed in
the practice ol.‘ the presence of (led.

An English Bishop Speaks:

Apropos of the above, we quote from words recently
written in “The Church ol' England Neyvspaper”, by
Dr. E. A. llurrmlghs, the tishop ol' ltipon:

“A first century Christian who paid a visit. to the
Christian Church of the twentieth century would have
to face many surprises and quite a few shocks. He
would certainly contrast; the complication ol’ our
creedal systems with the simplicity of the faith by
which he lived, and the clabO'ation and formality
which mark the most approved models of Christian
worship with the spontaneous and st 'aigbtl'orward
thing he knew by that; name. ’iut when he. began to
look behind such phenomena for their cause, he would
probably find it. in what: would surprise him most. of
all: the way in which inspiration and convention seem
to haVe changed places in the Church’s prog 'am. And
that in turn be \vould trace back to what, in his view,
would sufficiently account; for everything else that
puzzled him: the small place assigned to the Holy
Spirit, who, for him, was the Representative not only
of the l'nseen Christ in human hearts, but of the crea-
tive activity of Cod in the world.

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“True, the days are past when the Church of Eng-
land could be ('lescribcd with any truth as ‘the Con-

 

  

 

servative Party at prayer’. But how many members
of the average congregation give the impression that
inspiration, not ‘correetness’, is the keynote of the
Christian life? How many are forces impinging on
and changing their environment, and so helping to
‘turn the world upside down’? An able young writer
recently published a mordant criticism of the typical
British outlook under the title ‘World Without End’;
suggesting that the last half of the familiar Doxology,
in its misleading English version—contrast the Ger-
man, ‘from Eternity to Eternity ’——has got out of our
Prayer Books into our bones. Yet the genius of Chris-
tianity as the world first knew it is summed up in the
words spoken from the Throne of heaven (in Revela—
tion 21): ‘Behold, I make all things new!’ And the
process by which God does so is the renewal of human
personalities in such wise that each becomes an in-
spired, and therefore, revolutionary, influence on his
surroundings.”

Meditation and Retreat:

Those of us who rejoice in the wort “Protestant”
should nevertheless be aware of our own faults and
shortcomings. \Ve have not been the leaders in the
work of “retreats” and meditation services, and now
that the revival of interest is so apparent in the Church
we should learn how to use such methods and in all
probability can add great richness to them from our
inheritance. ,

ll? we allow the names to be associated with party
churehmanship, we will be doing immeasurable harm to
a part of religious life that has the utmost importance
today. People (most people) are not arguing about
whether there is a God today, they want to know what

God is like and how does He work and enter into my‘

soul.

Valuable lessons from the past can be learned.
Silence has been one of the methods for the Holy Spirit
to use in strengthening a life. Silence can be learned
in the well conducted and disciplined retreat and we
(Protestants) have had few retreats to our credit.

We remember one “quiet day” we attended which
was conducted by a good minister. It consisted of a
harangue for two hours about the budget of his church
and concluded with a noisy luncheon. The art of medi-
tation and quiet was conspicuous by its absence.

The technique of retreats, quiet days and medita-
tion, can be learned and does not need to include those
things with which we do not feel we can be in agree—
ment. Fortunately there are parishes with beautiful
services of meditation which use familiar honored
ritual and phraseology. We only hope there will be
more.

 

JUST IN THE FAMILY.

We would like to emphasize this week as much as
possible the need of personal religion, well realizing
that there are almost as many views on this wonderful
subject as there are people.

Donald B. Aldrich is the well known rector of The
Church of the Ascension, New York. It is well known
as “the church of the open door”, for its doors are
never closed and uniquely, Dr. Aldrich has worked out
a scheme of religious work that is impressive to all.

6 _ _- SOUTHERNEEURCEMAN

FEBRUARY 4, 1933_

 

He is a graduate of Dartmouth University and the
Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, Massachu-
setts. His alma mater (Dartmouth) has also conferred
upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity.

We wish we knew more of “C. O’Flaherty, M. D.”
We know that he is a priest in the Roman Catholic
Church and that the meditation printed this issue origi-
nated with him and was “revised” or adapted by the
Rev. James A. Mitchell of the Virginia Seminary. It
is a fine example of what we as Christians need in our
personal devotional life.

Our old and dear friend Bishop Rowe of Alaska has
just sent us a renewal of his subscription and has also
sent us a gift to enable us. to carry our message to some
who cannot afford to pay the subscription price. It is
characteristic of this great missionary who has so
many needs of his own to do such a thing, and we tell
this (without his permission) just to remin