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first Negro Bishop ]
For Churches Named
The new suffragan bishop of the
nation’s most blueblooded Epis
copal diocese is the son of a din
ning-car waiter on the Pere Mar
quette Railroad. Upon his conse
cration two weeks ago as one of
the two auxiliaries to Boston Bish
op Anson Phelps Stokes Jr., the Rt.
Rev. John Melville Burgess be
came the first Negro ever to serve
the Protestant Episcopal Church as
spiritual leader in a predominantly
white diocese.
Square and scholarly-looking.
Bishop Burgess, 53, was elected on
solid qualifications. He did ad
vanced study in sociology at the
University of Michigan before
graduating from the Efpiscopal
Theological School at Cambridge,
Mass., in 1934. After his ordin
was Archdeacon of Boston and su
ticeship at churches in Grand
Rapids and Cincinnati. In 1946 he
was called to the chaplaincy of
Washington’s Howard University,
and five years later became a
cannon of Washington Cathedral.
Until his consecration, Burgess
was Archdeacon of Boston and su
pervisor of the Episcopal City Mis
sion. Burgess was chosen for the
suffragan bishopric over four
white candidates on the first bal
lot at a convention of diocesan
priests last September.
Burgess takes his election as an
assignment to make his church
face up more directly to race-re
lations problems. He believes that
progress in civil rights for the
Negro has been “miraculous,” but
that “of all institutions, the church
has been the least able to adjust
to the change in racial atmos
phere.” The reason: “The church
is too much white middle-class,
and reflects too much the con
servatism of this social and econ
omic group. There is fear that
the church might take too radical
a stand.”
Bishop Burgess will continue to
command the efforts of his diocese
—which comprise roughly the east
ern half of Massachusetts to
meet the new religious needs of
inner Boston. He wants to expand
the church’s chaplaincy services
to universities in the Boston area,
and thinks that the church should
develop a program of chaplains
for industry to bridge the gap be
tween religion and the working
man. “The church,” he says,
“should try to make religion rele
vant to the needs of all kinds of
people. The church is not a sect
organized around a particular doc
trine or Biblical text. It is a great
fellowship bound by loyalty to
Christ.”
Be filled with the spirit;
speaking one to another in
psalms and hymns and spirit
ual songs, singing and mak
ing melody with your heart
to the Lord.
—(Eph. 5:18, 19).
We would all like to make
a real contribution to the
happiness and well-being of
others, but often we feel
limited. We feel that we must
have time and money in order
to help others. But the great
est help, the greatest gift wt
can give to another is to have
faith that God is Hi him and to
love and appreciate the won
derful qualities of God that
are expressed through him.
So speak to one another in
singing.
“Middle-age is when you
can do everything you used
to, but not until tomorrow.**