News Briefs
Diocesan Press Service. June 8, 1964 [XXII-7]
ANGLICAN SOCIETY ANNUAL MEETING
The Anglican Society held its annual meeting May 9 in Christ Church, Suffern, N. Y. The Rev. Charles H. Graf, D. D., rector of St. John's Church, Manhattan, was elected president. He succeeded the Rt. Rev. Earl M. Honaman, D.D., Suffragan Bishop of Harrisburg.
The program included a choral celebration of the Holy Eucharist at which the Rev. Carroll E. Simcox, new editor of The Living Church, preached on contemporary theological problems. The annual meeting was largely devoted to discussions of the policies of the Society. With several hundred members in the United States and Canada, the Society has traditionally stood for loyalty to the faith and practice of the Book of Common Prayer. The contemporary Liturgical Movement is giving a new importance but also a new direction to this position.
A RED THANK YOU
"I am deeply impressed by your unselfish service to humanity in the remote corner of my poor newly liberated country. May your Mrs. and you live long and continue this unselfish service to humanity."
This may sound like an ordinary thank-you letter to a missionary doctor, one that had been read hundreds of times before. True. There is one very large difference, however.
The writer is a member of the Communist Party of India and the doctor an Episcopal missionary from America.