Former Episcopal Bishop of Alaska To Speak
Members of St. Peter's here,
led by the Rev. L. Russell Clapp,
are planning full participation
in a national, churchwide, cam
paign.
On March 12, the Rt. Rev.
Henry Knox Sherrill, Presiding
Bishop of the Episcopal Church,
will address all Episcopal con
gregations, which will hear him
by means of radio receiving sets
placed in the churches, so that
The RT. REV. JOHN B. BENTLEY
former Bishop of Alaska, now vice
president of the National Council of
the Episcopal Church and Director of
its Overseas Department, who is one
of many Church leaders participating
actively in a church-wide educational
campaign, looking toward expansion of
many phases of the Episcopal Church’s
program of work at home and overseas.
at a certain moment during the
regular Sunday morning serv
ice, the Presiding Bishop’s voice
will tell of the needs and oppor-1
tunities. offered to the Church'
at this critical period in the
world’s history. The address will
be broadcast on one of the larg
est radio networks ever arrang
ed for a religious program.
The enlargement of plans in I
all departments of the Episcopal t
Church’s work is to be provided
for by a greatly increased finan-'
cial budget. The General Con-1
vention which met in San Fran- j
cisco last autumn, adopted a1
budget of $5,634,(517 for the i
year 1950, and the same amount I
for 1951 and 1952. The budget
for 1949 was $3,650,000, so that
the increase is nearly two mil-|
lion dolars. In its budget state-,
ment the General Convention j
said officially that “It is no mere
platitude to declare that we |
are living in an age of crisis.!
The Christian faith is being be-1
sieged from without by a mili-j
tant, assured, relentless, and ag
gressive secularism. It is be-1
trayed from within by inertia,
indifference. neglect. frustra-;
tion, and self-complacency.” The
great campaign of education
now being started is to assure
that Episcopal Church members
everywhere will / support the
whole plan, and the budget to
make it possible, so that the
Church may face the situation
stated by the Convention, and
do its utmost something about
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Just the Church for such a woman!
A notorious night-club hostess
died. Married, divorced, and “re
married,” she had abandoned
her God and her Church for the
tinsel of the world; yet in her
coffin a rosary entwined her
stiff, white fingers, over her
remains a Requiem Mass was
sung, and the ground that final
ly covered her had been consec
rated by the Catholic Church.
Just the Church for such a
woman!
The Catholic Church does pro
duce saints, yet the purpose of
its founding was to save sinners.
Of its hundreds of millions of
children how many are frequent
ly under temptations that you
and I perhaps, have never ex
perienced? How many fall in
their human frailty? Yet history
shows that unnumbered sinners
in their dying gasps implore
God to forgive them ahd take
them back into His Sacred
Heart again. And does the all
merciful God refuse?
To the woman of 1900 years
ago, who was taken in adultry,
our Divine Savior said, “Go
and sin no more." To the em
ployer 'of today who has de
frauded laborers of their wages,
to the gangster who has mur
dered his way to wealth, to the
woman of the world who has
denied and defied Him—-to ev
i ery Catholic on his death-bed
or in the confessional, who is
truly penitent and who has full
intent to make reparation, Jesus
Christ says again and again
through the mouth of His priest,
“Go and sin no more.”
“Forgive us our trespasses as
we forgive those who trespass
against us!” “Judge not, lest ye
I be judged!” “The flesh is weak!”
The Catholic, knowing these
things is taught to forgive and
sympathize with his erring bro
ther, aware that if his own temp
tations had been as great, he
might have fallen even to a low
er depth. And so he condemns
not; but rather, if possible, helps
with council, consolation, and
prayer to lead the sinner back
to his Church, which reflects
God’s boundless mercy through
its great Sacrament of Penance.
So here’s to the night-club
hostess! If her death-bed con
fession was sincere, as surely
we must assume it was, the Pope
himself must envy her in the
final salvation of which she is
assured.
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By W. W. Reid
Fifty-nine Protestant mission
aries in Japan and Korea—some of
the veterans of World War II—
recently signed a statement pro
testing some of the ideas written
by Dr. Daniel A. Poling, Baptist
youth leader and newspaper col
umnist, during and since his recent
visit to those countries. They said:
"We, as Christian missionaries, feel
it necessary to disassociate our
elves from the following state
ments of Dr. Poling. We feel that
they must not stand unchal
lenged as a Christian statement on
Far Eastern policy. He proposed
that the United States send ‘food,
money, ships, planes, and all re
quired weapons. We must also send
Chenault and his Flying Tigers anri
other top-flight administrators such
as Gen. Widemyer, Gen. Clark, and
Rep. Walter Judd, from civilian life
to direct public relations with the
Chinese.’ We cannot agree with Dr.
Poling as to giving complete and
dictatorial support to anyone op
posing communism in the Far East.
We stand with the World Council
of Churches in our opposition to
communism and other extremely
nationalistic positions. Asia is in
dire need of economic, social, and
spiritual aids which will not be met
by the sending of arms. The only
way to defeat communism is to re
move the conditions which foster
its growth.”
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home in a hurry, just send her
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one item clipped out.
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you get out of the driver’s way?”
Pedestrian: “I didn’t know
what he was driving at.”
A modest girl never pursues
a man. Nor does a mousetrap
pursue a mouse.
Critic (eyeing statue): “Isn’t
that an odd posture for a gen
eral?”
Sculptor: “That isn't my fault.
I had the statue half finished
when the committee decided it
couldn’t afford a horse for him.”
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