Brethren in the Lord
COMMONWEAL Number x Volume XI Stoyan Christowe 14 Witch Girl ( v e r s e ) . . . . . . . . . . THE A Weekly Review of Literature, The Arts, and Public Affairs. New York, Wednesday,...
...Advising the Negro to were dedicated to a love which transcended all natural " g o to his own church" could only mean, whether it barriers...
...Are we not stock exchange remain varied, but the fact that the confronted here with what is, essentially, a leveling market was suddenly without a bottom of clergy and laity, so that the first possesses no func- Wall Street abides...
...But there are other suggested forms of equality which are not at all so obvious...
...Carlos...
...At its recent convention in Toronto, the brilliant nobleness, had misread the evidence regarding American Federation of Labor took up the question of the soul...
...It seems to us far more practical and desirable that every major Christian corporation should strive to develop its own functional life, without worrying primarily about the others...
...Once again the folly of gambling has been demonstrated to the man who cannot afford to lose, the wisdom of sound investments has been inculcated, and the difficulty involved in making the aforesaid investments has been revealed anew...
...One wave of excited popular speculation had We believe that these questions are sufficient to broken against a chill barrier of facts among which readjustment to actual values of stocks, foreign liquidation and clever manipulation from on high stand out prominently...
...This decision is so obviously charity, no distinctions of nation, class or race...
...The nation is apparently not headed just yet for a period of financial discomfort, even though a host of citizens are broke...
...Oddly enough, this appears Pact is something else entirely...
...Washington reported officially that business was sound...
...The people of Jericho, the Roman ceriturion was so intended or not, that Christianity permitted and the publican were recommended again and again insistence upon that distinction between races which is as those with whom the disciples should seek fellow- so sore a social wound...
...The essence of this is expressed in a "Reconciliation Pact," which many Protestant clergyman here and abroad have signed, and which findt its theoretical defense in a book by the Reverend Peter Ainslee, The Scandal of Christianity...
...New York, Wednesday, November 6, 1929 EDITORIAL COUNCIL EDITORIAL BOARD MICHAEL WILLIAMS, Editor GEORGE N. SHtrSTER, Managing Editor MARy KOL~S, Assistant Editor CARLTON J. H. HAYES T. LAWRAS0N I~IGGS RICHARD DANA SKINNER JA~ES J. W~SH JOHN F. McCoa~ICK, Business Manager OF CONTENTS TABLE Grandfather's Eyes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pillar of Cloud (verse) . . . . . . . . . . . . Lourdes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eucharist (verse) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brethren in the Lord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I Week by Week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 The Hundred Percenters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Russia against Heaven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 The Crown of Saint Stephen . . . . Friedrich yon Minkus 8 Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Benjamin Musser I5 Gouverneur Paulding 16 Gilbert Blake I7 I8 Richard Dana Skinner 2o Books . . . . Georgiana Putnam McEntee, Joseph J. Reilly, Grace Hazard Conkling IO The Metaphysical Behaviorist . . . . . . . . . Frank Whalen I I Is There a Canadian Literature...
...BRETHREN IN THE LORD p ERHAPS no aspect of our Lord's ministry on earth controversy has raged over the ecclesiastical status of is more striking than His consciousness of the the Negro, begun in Protestant Episcopal circles by purely human differences which would divide His fol- the Reverend William Blackshear and then carried lowers into hostile groups...
...Equality between nations and races, between saints and sinners, in the Church~yes...
...Billions of dollars dwindled to tion other than that which might accrue to a discussion less than pence...
...Recently, for instance, not a little soon to form the agenda of a conference is not ac- 2 COMMONWEAL THE November 6, I929 . . . . . . , , , , , , , , , , , , , , z : ceptable...
...Professor Irving Fisher proved by analysis of statistics that stock rates have been lower during I929, when earnings are taken into consideration, than they were during I928...
...and the amenities of home are missing at a time much else than a particularly milky and watery distilla- when descent into second childhood makes them so aption of Leibnitz...
...Unquestioning be to disparage any effort to bridge over the chasms charity sometimes leaps over the confines of practical which sunder creed from creed, it seems to us that the organization, or interferes with plans which seem very program drawn up by the Christian Unity League and neat and necessary...
...But the idea of the plan to substitute pensions for institutional care...
...In the light of such a reading to be a reform which actually promises to save the taxof the mind of God all these divisions among us be- payers a good deal of money, it is estimated that if come nothing else but sin...
...From the Catholic point of ship...
...And that German sage, for all his pealing...
...Wall Street may be the scene of melodrama with an unhappy ending...
...Even the prison is hardly a more desolate place in which to live than is the institution in which Safeguarding feeble old men and women are housed...
...After all, men cannot grow together in the spirit unless their relation to God is that of a branch to the tree...
...Douglas Bush 12 George K. McCabe, J. Elliot Ross, Harry McGuire, Katherine Br~gy, Frederic Siedenburg, James J. Daly 2I Published weekly and copyrighted 1929, in the United States by the Calvert Publishing Corporation, Grand Central Terminal, New York, N. Y. United States: $5.00...
...Is it possible genuinely Impoverished investors" who had been flirting with to unify men on the basis of a mystical acceptance of margins abandoned the game with a Christ, without any reference to their intellectual per- sigh and went home to dream of happier Monte ception of Him or His meaning...
...Charles E. Mitchell, president of the world's largest bank, returned from abroad with a reassuring smile...
...This, at least, would not imply the abandonment of functional life...
...After deploring the "divisive and rivaling churches" which hamper the work of religion, the Pact goes on to say: "We propose to Old Age practise, in all our spiritual fellowships, the equality of all Christians before God, so that no Christian shall be denied membership in our churches, nor pulpit courthe proposal differ from some imaginary suggestion, in 'the social order, that all Americans were equal regardjustify the feeling that here is a type of unification which leaves out of consideration altogether the organic principle...
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...Thus the Church ing a statement that the Negro is guaranteed absolute was given a charter which recognized, in the life of equality in the Church...
...COMMONWEAL Number x Volume XI Stoyan Christowe 14 Witch Girl ( v e r s e ) . . . . . . . . . . THE A Weekly Review of Literature, The Arts, and Public Affairs...
...Then it might become clear that charity is indeed peace, but peace without surrender...
...The other separation--be- over into the Catholic field by Monsignor John L. Beltween those who would believe and those who would ford...
...He gave His hand to the woman taken in adul- view Cardinal Hayes settled the matter by authoriztery, to the leper and even to Pilate...
...Crowds of "modest leader of some type or other...
...the inmates get tesies to other ministers...
...But He was tireless time...
...this insistence upon universality is so evident that it cannot even be debated among Christians...
...The mediating purpose of the priesthood is, then abidWEEK BY WEEK M ODERN society has found no adequate solution for the problem of penniless old age...
...I t was the gulf not envisage only those limitations of space which debetween light and darkness, between rigorism and cree that not all of us can meet in one place at the same charity, between life and death...
...In New York state, a legislative committee heard fifteen experts review the evidence in the case and found there ority of the pension system...
...Foreign: $6.00...
...Of course we shall grant the equality of all Chrisold-age pensioning and urged society to supply an answer...
...California will actually proceed, under a law tians, in the sense conveyed by the immemorial teach- to go into effect during January of next year, with a ing of the "soul of the Church...
...The cost of caring for them is so high that little money can be expended on additional comforts...
...But the Church itself cannot be merely equality...
...With all the go0d-will in one another's nerves, and tire out even the sturdiest the world, we cannot bring ourselves to feel that this is nurses...
...Canada: $5.50 Single Copies: $.10...
...Sundered from it, through whatever specious belief in change, not even faith, hope and charity remain...
...The whole matter sign of the community will have no significance ? Does is so important that The Commonweal hopes to publish an authoritative article on it soon...
...Under the circumstances this discussion could n o t - - H e drew sharply and absolutely...
...less of birth or naturalization, of obedience to the law, EXPLANATIONS of the collapse of values on the of function in the administrative routine...
...No edifice, however sacred, can be a Valley of in pointing out to those who would follow that they Josaphat, as everybody knows...
...It rebukes," says the Christian Century, "all our creedal tests, our rebaptisms, our claims to an exclusive monopoly of priestly was almost unanimous agreement regarding the superifunctions, our sectarianisms based upon social caste or taste or temperament...
...From the beginning it has insisted that the central matter in religion is not the effort of man himself, but the grace that comes from on high...
...Many a corollary of the fundamental Christian outlook that details of New Testament doctrine remain obscure, but no compromise would have been possible...
...Is it possible, one asks, so New York abandoned its poor farm system, not one to deflate the sense of corporate unity that every visible but many millions could be saved...
...Optimism regarding the country's general economic situation followed the storm, of course, very like the sun...
...Impossible though it I t is, of course, a difficult ideal...
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