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...quicken Episcopal interest in missions. It was called The Drama of Missions to Spread Throughout the World the Glory of the Light That All Nations May See and Know Him. It had its genesis a year ago when Pennsylvania's Bishop Francis Marion Taitt, ordinarily a scholarly, retiring churchman, marched down Broad Street, with austere little Bishop William Thomas Manning of New York, other dignitaries and Episcopal laity, singing Onward Christian Soldiers. The Episcopal missionary budget was short once more-$250,000 worth-and Bishop Taitt was doing his part by holding a mission mass meeting in the Academy...
...Bishop William Thomas Manning, who faces a convention fight if his rigid ideas on marriage and divorce are to prevail over those of churchmen who would liberalize Episcopal canons, let loose a blast at the C. L. I. D. program. He wrote to Episcopal journals (one of which, The Churchman, declined to print his words and editorially questioned his ethics in giving his letter simultaneously to the daily press): "The C. L. I. D. is ... militantly partisan and radical. ... It is evident that these meetings are not for judicial consideration, or for social education, but that they are purely propagandist...
Last week's meeting in Philadelphia offered an extraordinary view of this extraordinary church. The only Quaker President of the U. S., Herbert Hoover, never an active churchman, was absent but many another famed Quaker was present. Quartered at two Quaker colleges Haverford and Swarthmore, both in Philadelphia's environs, the Friends met daily in Swarthmore's roomy Field House and its towering limestone chapel. Foreign delegates soon learned that the chapel was given by Philadelphia's rich Quaker Clothier family, while the other-half of the ownership of the city's famed department store...
...Conference which many delegates were determined to develop into a frontal attack on Fascism, there might have been likelier promoters than Churchman Brown, the scion of the banking Brown Brothers who married Anne Spencer Morrow and Charles Augustus Lindbergh, who lives well on Park Avenue in Manhattan, and planned after the Conference to golf with other members of the Royal & Ancient Club of St. Andrews. Last week Dr. Brown was far less in evidence than such U. S. churchmen as Union's passionate Reinhold Niebuhr or deliberate Henry Sloane Coffin, Princeton Theological Seminary's John Alexander Mackay, Presiding...
Last year three important U. S. churches, the Methodist, Evangelical & Reformed and Disciples of Christ, disowned the commission which appoints chaplains. Many a U. S. churchman would strip the chaplain of his rank and uniform. Of this the Association meeting in Chicago last week was acutely conscious, but an estimated 90% of its membership is satisfied with the chaplaincy as now constituted, and the matter was not publicly discussed. Said one chaplain loftily: "We prefer to emphasize our principles by example rather than debate." Said U. S. Chief of Chaplains Alva Jennings Brasted: "We have no grievance against anyone. Countless...