Evening Star Newspaper, May 22, 1931, Page 26

EPISCOPAL SESSN 0F TV DAYS EXDS Deputies Elected and Colincil -Directed to Present Finance Crisis to PariShes. Following the election of deputies to the General Convention of th: Epis- | copal Church in Denver and a vote directing the Executive Council to pre- sent the financial crisis cf the Wash- ington diocese to all parishes, the ‘Washington diocesan convention of the church adjourned late yesterday after & two-day session. In addition to electing clerical and | lay deputies to the Denver sessions, the convention also elected a new Standing Committee and Executive Council whose members will serye until the next annual gathering, which will be held at St. Mark's Church. The election resulted as follows: Delegates to the general convention— Clerical, Rev. Z. Barney Phillips, Rev. Robert Johnston, Rev. George F. Dud- | ley, Rev. C. Ernest Smith, and first alternate, Rev. G. Freeland Peter, canon and chancellor of Washington | Cathedral; lay, H. T. Nelson, H. L.| Rust, Dr. W. Sinclair Bowen and Mel- ville Church. Members of the Standing Commit- tee—Clerical, Rev. George F. Dudley, Rev. Herbert Scott Smith, Rev. Joseph Fletcher and Rev. M. F. Minnick; lay, | H, M. Bowen, Marcus Benjamin and H, T. Nelson. Executive Council Members. ‘Members of the Executive Council— Clerical, Rev. C. E. Buck, Rev. Robert Johnston, Rev. F. J. Bohanan, Rev. Z. B, Phillips, Rev. F. B. Tucker and Re H. A. Woolfall; lay, Byron S. Adams, S. E. Kramer, Busey Howard, H. T.| Nelson, H. Blair and Melville | Church. | ‘While waiting for the report of the election tellers, Rev. Anson Phelps | Stokes, canon of Washington Cathedral, made a plea that a carefully worked out plan for straightening out the finances of the diocese and bringing to ‘the attention of every parish the nced for “a distinctly forward movement based on better financing,” be put into | effect at the earliest possible time. On | his motion it was voted to recommend t0 the Executive Council to present the financial side *of the diocese tc | all the parishes. | Canon Stokes said he hall in mind a survey of the exact financial situation | and in referring to the fact that $871,000 | now is being raised annually for church es in the diocese asserted the | convention fund should not represent any difficulties once it is understood by all. As a part of the movement, he suggested an educational campaign to acquaint all parishes with the details of the convention fund, which is de- voted to the running expenses of the | diocesan officers, the bishop's salary | and other matters. The Executive Council, it is understood, is to place such a general plan before the next| convention in May. $2,250,005 Gifts in 1930, ‘The dean of the Cathedral, Rev. G. C. F. Bratenahl, in his report to the | convention declared that during 1930 | pledges and gifts to the Cathedral | amounting to more than $2,250,000 had been received. This amount included | the $1,000,000 bequest for the College of Preachers from the late Alexander Smith Cochran, Yonkers, N. Y. Maj. F. G. Munson, a lay delegate, told the convention of plans for the annual p of the Brother] of St. Andrew to historic Williathsburg and Jamestown, Va. which will be held June 13-14. The Brotherhood, ke said, extends a cordial invitation to all members of the convention to take part. Another invitation to the church school for girls established in | the United States, was extended by Archdeacon Smith of the Diocese of Maryland. THE EVENI - Holy Grail Legend Origin l Mythographist Traces Christian Tradition to An- cients, with Original Meaning of Hunt for Mystic Talisman in National Disaster Forgotten. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. ‘The Holy Grall legend, one of the dominant motifs in the music, litera- ture and art of Western Europe for a thousand years, may be traced to India. This is revealed in a study of Iniian mytholcgy by A. K. Coomarasw:my just issued .by the.Smithsonian, I tution as a publication of the Freer hich specializes in Ori- The s.ory of the search for the chalice of the Last Supper, Coomaraswamy says, not only has many parallels in Indian legendry, but is an adaptation with much Christian sym- bolism of ideas which arcse out of the anclent life and ‘vegetation cults. Historically, he says, thesc legends found their way into European tradi- tion as mysteries during the Roman period and “seem in latar times to have been the leading ideas in an heritical Christian order, probably to be asso- ciated with the Knights Templar.” Grail parallels in Indian literature, he says, are more strikine and mere nu- merous than scholars have suspected. Based on Talisman Search. The essenllal feature of the grail legendry, he points out, is the search for some talisman, frequently a cup with miraculous powers. The introduc- tion of the knights errant and the identifying of the cup with that of the Last Supper, he points out, are Chris tian embellishments which made it possible for devout church members to continue the inherited tradition, al- though never with the full approval of - | ductive jewel, a tree of paradise that the church. The same process has taken place in India, he explains, in adapting the vegetalion cult imagery toBhuddism. “Almost every important Indian deity,” he relates, “is said, in one place |or ancther, to possess a_wish-granting talisman, an inexhaustible bowl, a pro- yi2lds all kinds of treasures or a wish- |inG cow.” Thus one possesses a_copper dish of inexhaustible food. Another has “a beloved thing which gives im- mortality to mortals, makes the blind see and restores youth to the old: it |1s kept in a jar guarded by dragons in a cave very difficult of access.” An- other is always pictured as carrying a |flask in his hand and the contents of life, Disaster Evoked Legend. | _The general framework of th2 Holy | Grail legend, he points out, involves | the existence of such a magic cup or |other article and a land stricken by | famine because of the weakness of the |king. The king, in the ancient Indo- | European religious system, was con- | ceived as a symbol of nature or as the | flesh-and-blood appearance of a nature god. Thus when the king was sick | nature was sick also, and there were |no crops. Some folk hero started out | to find the mystic talisman which would ' restore the king's health and hence the | prosperity of the land. 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After the Turmoil at the City's Forges Those who spend an evening hour in the ?arden know that its “silence and per- umes are as healing balm” after “the tiring turmoil of the day's labor at the city’s forges.” To make this hour one of recuperation, you should have a comfortable Glider in the garden or on the porch. There are many delightful Gliders at Mayer & Co. now starting at $15.75. MAYER & CO. Seventh Street G STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, "MAY 22, 1931 Even the king was a secondary figure, the original imagery probably being identified with nature itself. As in Europe, the grail legends ap- pear in many derived forms in India, Coomnuw:mmm Sometimes the | place of the CI n Galahad is taken b¥‘ a heroine. The magic bowl from which the world will be fed, probably a symbol of the rain, appears once a year on Buddha's birthday from the waters of a lake which the god fre- quented in his life. The maiden secures it and goes through the country with it, restoring fertility everywhere. Here the symbolism closely follows that of the Lady of the Lake ‘in the legends| of King Arthur. “It is beyond question,” the Smith- | sonlan study says, “that the funda-| mental theme of the grail legend.is| present in India, that it once belonged | to a vegetation or fertility cult, and that, just as in Europe, the original meaning of the motif was gradually forgotten, so that the myth became a tale employed for edifying purposes re- mote from those of its primary sig- nificance. “The same applies to the dance. Folk dances, in part rain spells, and | also sword dances ar: certainly known | in India and present suggestive paral- | lels with various vegetation and sword | which he uses to restore the dead to|dances of Europe. Authors have sought | Performance, the first large outdoor | & to interpret many Vedic hymns as being the words of early veg:tation dramas | or mysteries, and the general Indian | tendency to think of the dance as a symbol or instigation of cosmogenic | activities cannot be ignored. | “The fundamental thcme of the maimed king and consequent cosmic | disaster, necessitating a ritual designed to secure the freeing of the waters, i plainly traceabls in India, where it must once have existed in a more defi- rite form than at present.” “The general idea, without any of its later Christian and Buddhist embellish- ments, he points out, can be traced back at_least as far as Babylon, and prob- | ably formed & basic part of the ancient | Indo-European culture. | Practice has been directed by 16 dance | | leaders in the community centers under eral governments are listed among the honor. guests. ‘The centers to be ted in “The Wizard of Oz” inch Bancroft, Bar- nard, Ben Murch, E. V. 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