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N ew Y ork Observes 150th A nniversary By HARRISON ROCKWELL O TING the title above some reader may ask, ish was the place of meeting of this organizing group. N “ Only 150 years? I should have said that the Later reports refer to meeting again at St. Paul’s in Church in New York is much older than that.” Such such a way as to leave little question as to the scene a surmise is correct. The founding- of our communion of the first convention. St. Paul’s, built in 1766, was here in New York goes back to 1664, to the estab then a comparatively new edifice, having had but 20 lishment in the fort of a work of the Church of Eng years of use. To-day, in its 170th year, the venerable land. Thirty-three years later, in 1697, the rapidly chapel, now the oldest religious edifice in the city, growing community saw the founding of Trinity par stands its ground like a veteran sentinel against the ish. And after this nearly a century elapsed before values of the commercial interests that surround and there was effected the organization of the diocese, the tower high above it. In 1785 Trinity Church had not sesquicentennial of which we are commemorating this been rebuilt following the destruction of its first build year. So in conjunction with this observance it should ing by fire, so that it would have been natural and not be overlooked that the Church has ministered to convenient to use St. Paul’s for the convention, just this community for 271 years. as was done for the service in conjunction with the It was one hundred and fifty years ago this sum inaugural of President Washington. mer, on June 22nd, 1785, to be exact, when the The amazing growth of our Church’s work in this Church in the then City of New York was served by area is evident in many ways, but one of the most Trinity parish alone, that it seemed good to those striking is to compare the little body of Churchmen pioneer Churchmen to bring about for the furtherance that made up its first convention at St. Paul’s with of their work a diocesan organization. It was the end the great throngs of clerical and lay delegates which of the first decade of American Independence, and the will meet in diocesan conventions in this 150th anni hostilities of the Revolution had ceased but four years versary year not only here in New York’s synod before. It was, throughout the Colonies, a time of at house but in the five other dioceses of the state. For tempted settlement and adjustment. Before the Church during the first half-century of its existence the dio people of that day was presented the announcement of cese of New York included the entire state of New an early event of interest and importance. The first York. Not until 1838 was the first division made General Convention was to meet in Philadelphia in the when the diocese of Western New York was set autumn of that year of 1785. Without doubt that in apart. Then, thirty years later, in 1868, occurred the fluenced the Churchmen here to effect an organization, triple division which brought about our present dio for from the meagre records we have of the first con ceses of Central New York, Albany and Long Island. vention here it seems that the chief item of business Further, in 1931 took place the organization of the was the choosing of delegates (three clerical and three diocese of Rochester, a division of the diocese of lay) to represent New York at the first General Con Western New York. In this great area, over which vention. at the time of the first convention there was no bishop The Rev. Samuel Provoost, rector of Trinity, pre to preside, to-day eleven bishops serve, six diocesan— sided at our first Convention. (The 1785 General Con and five suffragan-bishops. Under their direction be vention authorized New York to elect a bishop, and tween 1,000 and 1,100 clergy minister to at least in 1786 Dr. Provoost was chosen, being consecrated in 250,000 communicants and to many more baptized 1787 at Lambeth). Also in attendance at the first New church-members. Therefore, the anniversary which York meeting was the Rev. Benjamin Moore, assist New York is observing this year is one which con ant minister in Trinity parish, who in 1801 became the cerns the Church-folk of the entire state. second Bishop of New York. Only three other clergy The strong parishes and the thriving missions men were present, and they with eleven laymen con throughout the field trace their histories back to the stituted the inaugural convention of this Diocese. little group of churches that were bravely carrying on In all probability St. Paul’s Chapel of Trinity par when the first convention met in 1785. At that time

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Four T H E W T N E S S May 9, 1935 the Church was ministering to such communities be eight Bishops of the other dioceses of the state, of yond New York as Richmond, Westchester, East- the original jurisdiction, and it is expected that a great chester, Yonkers, Rye, New Rochelle, Poughkeepsie, many of the diocesan clergy will take part in the pro Peekskill, Fishkill, Garrison, White Plains,. Hemp cession and service. Three addresses will be given. stead, Jamaica, Flushing, Albany, Troy, Utica and One by the Bishop of New York on the significance Rochester, to cite a few among them. They and others of the anniversary to our present work; an historical constitute the parent group from which has come the paper by the Rev. E. Clowes Chorley, the historio leadership that has made the Church in the Empire grapher of the diocese of New York and of the na State, with its six strong dioceses, a decidedly potent tional Church, and an address by Canon Stacy Waddy, influence throughout the Church in the nation. executive secretary of the Venerable Society for the The 150th anniversary of the organization of the Propagation of the Gospel, the well-known English diocese of New York will be observed in conjunction work, often designated as “ the S. P. G.” , which ren with this year’s convention. That will be held on dered notable service to the Church in New York in Tuesday and Wednesday, May 14th and 15th, begin the early days of its history. This cathedral service ning with the service of the Holy Communion in the will, of course, be open to the public; it is scheduled Cathedral of St. John the Divine at eleven o’clock. to begin at 8:15. The sessions of the convention, which are open to the A diocesan anniversary, such as this, rightly calls- public, continue through Tuesday and Wednesday. Of our attention to the courageous and consecrated lead chief interest at any convention, and notably this year ers of the past and to the foundations which they by reason of this anniversary observance, is the ad have securely laid. But if it is to have more than a dress to the convention by the Bishop of the diocese, sentimental value it will, as it should, stimulate us to- the Rt. Rev. William T. Manning. This is read in the carry on with the same devotion and Christian love afternoon of the first day. Also on that evening, Tues to meet the problems confronting us of today, prob day, the 14th, there will be held in the cathedral a lems different in nature than those of 1785 and neigh mass meeting for the greater commemoration of the boring years but in their effect upon greater areas of diocesan anniversary. To this have been invited the influence decidedly more important and crucial.

Supposing God Exists By W. G. P E C K Priest of the Church of England T M U ST be understood that when I speak of God, Him. It is utterly and entirely dependent upon Him. I I mean the God of the Christian religion. And In this brief article, I cannot stay to defend this idea. when I say, “ Supposing God exists” , I do not mean to I can only record my conviction that it is the only suggest that there is any doubt about it. I mean to say defensible conception of God, and to point to the fact that if God exists, then certain things most surely that all philosophies otherwise founded come to a col follow. I cannot help it if they seem very surprising lapse which seems inevitable. and revolutionary things. That they should seem sur Now, there are two positive deductions from the prising and revolutionary simply means that the mod Christian doctrine of God, about which I desire to ask ern world has assumed that God does not exist, and intelligent employers to think with great care. If Mr. has acted accordingly, so that our daily habits, our Tomkins, President of the Terrestrial Tallow Corpora politics and economics, have been built upon atheistic tion, owes his existence entirely to an act of God foundations. which was not necessitated by any need pressing upon ' ,Let us, however, turn back for a moment to the idea God, it follows that the existence of Mr. Tomkins is of God. The thought of our generation has come to due to a stupendous act of divine grace. Mr. Tomkins a most complicated confusion because it has no con is the product of the free and unmerited favour of ception of God which can possibly mean anything. God God. God did not say, “ I need help; therefore I will is not a “ stream of tendency.” He is not “the ideal ele create Mr. Tomkins who will become President of the ment in human life.” He is not the sum of cosmic Terrestrial Tallow Corporation, and thus the wheels of forces. He is not the goal of the universe, yet to be the Cosmos will be lubricated” . God created Mr. Tom a:chieved. • He is not in any way to be identified with kins out of His own divine generosity. And God created things. He is, according to Christian doctrine, would still be God, if there were no Mr. Tomkins. the Eternal Being, self-existent, perfect, and wholly I point out at this stage, that Mr. Tomkins was complete in Himself. The universe is not necessary born head over heels in a debt which he can never tpuHis being or to His felicity. It adds nothing to repay,- And I want to ask him quite seriously, what ’This:in the second of a series of six articles on AN INTELLIGENT kind of reaction he supposes is called for, in view of EMPLOYER’S GUIDE TO CHRISTIANITY. The subject next week is WHAT IS MAN? this, the governing fact of his existence. I imagine

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. May 9, 1935 T H E WITNESS Page Five there can be only one answer. He ought, even as a the purpose of human action must have relation with sportsman and nothing more, to live his whole life in God’s purpose, or the action will be frustrated in the gratitude: to respond to the basic generosity of God, end, and lead only to confusion and disaster. I want with a generosity which shall characterize all his own to pin down any defender of the modern economic sys human plans and actions. tem, to the question of its purpose. What is it trying And does Mr. Tomkins really think that such to do ? The natural purpose of an economic is to satis spiritual gratitude finds a fit expression in a system fy the natural needs of men. The Faith says that this which appropriates the best of this world’s goods for is just and proper, for if the natural needs of men are those who employ, and fobs off those who are em satisfied, they may go on to achieve the spiritual end ployed with the leavings? As he looks at the system of their being. And of course, in a wholly rational of which he is so important an ornament, is he gen order, the ultimate spiritual end would control the uinely convinced that it is founded and grounded in a method of supplying and distributing the means. desire to be generous? He knows well enough that it But we all know perfectly well that our system does is built upon the principle that those who work shall not care a brass button about satisfying the needs of never be allowed to consume the equivalent of their men. It seeks to stimulate “ wants” , because if they labour. He knows that because of this very limita are backed by purchasing power, they are the means tion of the po'yver to buy, there must be fierce com of profit. And out of its greed, the system has pro petition in selling. He knows, indeed, that the system duced the insanity of reducing the needs of men to assumes that the Master of life is a greedy Moloch. It economic ineffectiveness. Why? Because the system has no sort of relation with the Christian conception is chained to the idea that the purpose of industry is a of God; sum of money that can be re-invested for profit. And I hope he will not be so foolish as to suggest that since it has expanded over the world, never allowing the economic field and the religious field are upon its workers power to consume what they produce: and levels so different and so distant, that there can be no as there is now less and less opportunity for invest relation between them. That is only an attempt to ment: and as the machines, used as the instruments of warn God off from too close an inspection of the this system, make human labour less and less neces affairs of the Terrestrial Tallow Corporation. The sary, and wages, therefore, less and less in relative tallow belongs to God, at any rate, by virtue of His bulk, you will see what I mean when I say that there creatorship. And Mr. Tomkins had better be careful are the seeds of death in the system. Its progress what he is doing with it ! And Mr. Tomkins and his seemed to be illimitable; but it is finding its limit in office boy alike bring their immortal souls to the office the grave. This is because it treats men as the in every morning. You cannot split life into compart struments of money. It uses the world for a purpose ments and say that a man may say his prayers in one, which is not God’s. It is the great blasphemy. It is and may behave like a pig in another. For in both he bound to come to naught. If you doubt this, look is the same man, always in debt to God for his exist around! And if you still doubt, at least remember ence. this: You may believe in God, or you may deliberately accept the modern economic; but you cannot intel H E R E is a second deduction from the Christian ligently do both things at once. For, as was remarked T conception of God, which concerns us here. If long since, by lips which never spoke but with divine we and the universe are utterly dependent upon God, truth, Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

T owards the South By E. CLOWES CHORLEY H E inability of Dr. Hawks to accept his election Nashville and preached to a congregation of six per Tas Missionary Bishop of the Southwest in 1835 sons, two only being communicants. There was a left the whole of that vast territory in the nominal strong prejudice against a liturgical service and the charge of James Hervey Otey, who had been elected bishop overheard a raw-boned native say to a com Bishop of Tennessee two years before. One of twelve panion, “ Come, let’s go and hear that man preach and children of a Virginia farmer, he was appointed a his wife jaw back at him” , an allusion to the fact tutor in the University of North Carolina and as such that Mrs. Otey was the only person who could say it became his duty to read prayers in the college chapel the responses. Before his election to the episcopate until someone presented him with a copy of the Book Otey induced Bishop Ravenscroft to visit Tennessee of Common Prayer which led him into' the Church. and he presided at the primary convention attended After his ordination he went back to Tennessee and by three clergymen and six laymen. opened a school. Outside his own family there was In 1833 Otey was elected bishop with five priests, not a single known communicant of the Church in three deacons and about 117 communicants. In that the entire state. On alternate Saturdays he rode to year a missionary visited Memphis with a population

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Six T H E WITNESS May 9, 1935 of 1,200 persons, and expressed the conviction that son Fox” , began a ministry which covered seventy some persons thought “ that it will in a few years num years. The country was infested with bears and wild ber many thousands” . Calvary church was organized cats. After spending a night in a room, twelve feet on August 6th. Inside the building “ the pulpit and square, with fourteen persons, he departed “ reflecting reading desk were odd enough to be funny; they how much we suffer from over refinement and how looked like pockets on a school girl’s apron—just two few things are necessary to supply the real wants of balconies high up on the wall, with little doors be life” ! At that time there was a craze for dancing and hind” . the people at Pearlington at the close of a service sug Otey died in 1863 as he whispered the words of gested that as they were all gathered together “ it the Lord’s Prayer, and was succeeded by Charles Todd would be very convenient to have a little dance after Quintard who always insisted upon confirming black the service, was over” . and white together. He justified what was then an un The first convention was held May 17, 1826, with precedented action by quoting the noble words of four clergy in attendance. In 1849 the Rev. William Bishop A. C. Coxe: Mercer Green of North Carolina was elected first “ Our mother, the Church, hath never a child bishop. Eleven years later came the civil war and the To honor before the rest, State lay “ prostrate and bleeding at every pore” . In But she singeth the same for mighty kings 1884 Bishop Green transferred the administration to And the veriest babe on her breast ; his coadjutor, Hugh Miller Thompson, and died three And the bishop goes down to his narrow bed years later. As a ploughman’s child is laid, In 1803 Louisiana was transferred to France by And alike she blesseth the dark-browed serf Spain and in turn sold to the United States by And the chief in his robes arrayed.” Napoleon. Two years later a group of people in New An effort to create a south-western diocese failed Orleans decided that “ a Protestant clergyman should and Otey at one time or another had charge of Missis be obtained to come and preach the gospel in the city” . sippi, Florida, Louisiana, Arkansas and the Indian ter A vote was taken to determine from what church he ritory. In 1838 Leonidas Polk became missionary should come; forty-five voted for an Episcopalian, bishop of Arkansas, and had charge of Mississippi and seven for a Presbyterian and one for a Methodist. what was then the republic of Texas. In five months That is the official record. Tradition, however, says he travelled 5,000 miles. that the choice was determined by the winner of a poker game. Application was made to Bishop Ben jamin Moore of New York who sent Philander Chase H E first services of the Church were held in Ala who arrived in New Orleans on November 13, 1805, bama about 1763 by an English missionary, T and Christ Church parish was organized. Services France having ceded Fort Mobile to England. He were held in the United States Court Room, and a proved to be a disgrace to his profession and the “ Communion was instituted and several devout persons S.P.G. sent the Rev. Samuel Hart of Charleston to of both sexes attended.” Chase remained five years. Mobile. But “ he found both place and people too dis In 1830 Bishop Brownell presided at a convention at agreeable to be preferred to so agreeable a situation as tended by three clergy and lay delegates from two he now enjoys” and returned whence he came. Nothing parishes. Eight years later the diocese was organized was done until 1826. A parish was organized at and placed under Polk, missionary bishop of Arkansas. Tuscaloosa in 1828, and the following year Christ In 1841 he was elected Bishop of Louisana. Destined Church, Mobile, was organized. In 1830 Bishop for ihe army he was converted while a cadet at West Brownell of Connecticut, visited Alabama and pre Point where he was the leader of what the cadets sided at the primary convention attended by three called “ the praying squad” . To the great disgust of clergymen and a dozen laymen described as the prin his father he determined to enter the ministry. When cipal Episcopalians of the city and from other parts President Andrew Jackson asked the elder Polk, of the State” . In 1835 the few church-people of “Where is your son stationed?” the irate parent an Montgomery began services in a Baptist church until swered, “ Stationed! Why by thunder, sir, he’s over St. John’s was consecrated by Bishop Kemper in 1837. there in Alexandria at the seminary” . In 1861 Polk The election of Nicholas Hamner Cobbs as Bishop of yielded reluctantly to a call from the President of the Alabama in 1844 has already been noted. Confederate States to accept a commission as major- The Rev. Adam Cloud of Virginia settled in Missis general. He was killed at the battle of Pine Mountain, sippi and for three years ministered to the people. At Georgia, on June 14, 1864. the end of that time he was arrested by the Spanish authorities, taken to New Orleans in irons. He was offered the alternative of being sent to Spain for trial N 1763 Florida was given by Spain to England in or leaving the Spanish territory. He returned to North I exchange for Cuba. In less than a year the S.P.G. Carolina and at the end of twenty years came back to sent two missionaries—the Rev. John Forbes to St. Mississippi and in 1820 organized the parish at Church Augustine and the Rev. Samuel Hart to West Florida. Hill. Two years later the Rev. James Pilmore built Mr. Forbes was at St. Augustine as late as 1771 where Trinity church, Natchez. It had an immense dome and a substantial church w asv built and the Rev. John was known as “ the round top church” . About the Fraser is recorded as “ Parson at Mosquito” . After same time the Rev. James Angel Fox, known as “ Par twenty years of British occupation Florida was ceded

back to Spain and sold to the United States in 1821. and why? Balkan States? Armenian? Abyssinian?” Shortly after the Young Men’s Missionary Association The word “ Catholic” is used with a good deal of of Charleston provided the means to send the Rev. flexibility, according to what it is you are talking about. Andrew Fowler to St. Augustine. On October 6th So far as this question is concerned, it would mean he published the following notice in the Florida those ecclesiastical groups which have retailed the con Gazette: tinuous organic life of the Church through the historic “ The Subscriber takes this method to announce episcopate. to the public his intention to perform divine ser 1— The Orthodox. Strictly speaking there is no vice, God willing, in this city on the morrow, at such thing as an Orthodox Church. There are Ortho the old Government House. Service will com dox Churches bound together by common recognition mence precisely at 10 o’clock in the morning” . of the leadership of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Con It is on record that the preacher had “ a numerous, re stantinople. This includes the Church of Jerusalem spectable and attentive audience” . In 1823 the Mis which is, in the very nature of the case, the Mother sionary Society sent the Rev. Mellish L. Motte to St. Church of all Christendom. In this group of Ortho Augustine, but he met with scant success and returned doxy are gathered the Greek Church, the Russian to South Carolina. In 1825 the parish at St. Augustine Church, the several Orthodox Churches in the Balkan was organized with twenty communicants. Five years States, the Syrian Church, the Church of Cyprus, the later it was reported that “ our church edifice, a very Church of Alexandria, etc. Sometimes it is all re neat building of hewn stone, fifty by fifty-five feet, in ferred to as the Greek Catholic Church because of the the Gothic order, is far advanced towards completion” . predominance of Greek influence but this is not an It was consecrated June 5, 1834, by Bishop Bowen of exact title. ■ i § h— South Carolina. At Pensacola a church described as “ neat and substantial; well adapted to the climate” , 2— The Roman Catholic Church, including the was built, but not paid for. The Rev. David Brown Uniats who were proselytized from Orthodoxy several organized St. John’s, Jacksonville, where he found “ a centuries ago. few old people who belonged to the Church forty 3— The Anglican Communion which means that years ago” , and solicited some “ octavo prayer books” . group of autonomous Churches which recognize the The diocese of Florida was organized in 1838 and was honorary leadership of the Archbishop of Canterbury. for several years in charge of the Bishop of Georgia. This includes the Churches of England, Wales, Scot In 1850 the Rev. Francis Huger Rutledge was elected land, Ireland—the Church in Canada, the Churches in first bishop. Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the Episcopal In the comparatively early records of the Board of Church in this country and the various missionary Missions Texas was classed as a “ foreign” mission. jurisdictions associated with them like the Churches in In 1836 the settlers rebelled against Mexico and estab Japan, China, India, etc. lished the republic of Texas. In 1838 the population was about 100,000 and not a single Protestant church 4— The Old Catholic Church. This comprises a in the entire republic. The Rev. Caleb S. Ives was body of former Roman Catholics who broke with the sent as missionary to Matagorda and on Christmas papacy in 1870 over the novel dogma of papal infalli Day administered the Holy Communion. Bishop Polk bility. Their headquarters are in Utrecht, Holland, made a visitation and found the Rev. Mr. Ranney and their following spreads through Germany, Switz officiating at Galveston. Houston was occupied in erland,. Poland, Austria. The Polish National Catholic 1838. In 1845 Texas became part of the United States Church in the United States is the only American and four years later a diocese was organized and in branch which is recognized by the European Old Cath 1859 Alexander Gregg of South Carolina was elected olics. first bishop and in 1874 the missionary jurisdictions The Armenian Church is in a half-and-half position. of Northern and Western Texas were created. Bishop Some fifteen hundred years ago there was a sharp con Gregg died in 1893 and was succeeded by George troversy over a heresy called Nestorianism which was Herbert Kinsolving, known and beloved through the adopted by the Armenians, thereby separating them length and breadth of, the Lone Star State as “ Texas from the other eastern Churches. Technically they George” . still remain in that position but the distinctive points of

THE PAR FLUNG PACIFIC will be dealt with next week in the Nestorianism have been diluted with the passage of series on THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN CHURCH by Dr. time to such an extent that today the Armenian Church Chorley. stands practically on the same basis as Orthodoxy. The Abyssinian Church as a separate body also dates L et’s Know back to one of the early heresies called Monophysitism, By the peculiar character of which has likewise been rather well washed out in the intervening centuries. This BISHOP WILSON Church, however, has been so long cut off from Chris C a t h o l i c G r o u p s tian progress in its secluded place in north Africa that L E T T E R from one of our readers asks the fol- its position does not find a great deal of common ground A ing question: “ Please list what are generally con with other Christian bodies. It is quite independent of sidered the four great groups of the Catholic Church the main four groups.

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Eight E WITNESS May 9, 1935TH NEW YORK DIOCESE now adapted for electricity, but otherwise unchanged. CARRIES ON WORK The church is open all day every OF VARIED SORTS day for meditation and prayer, and has four or more services every day Over on the hills of Staten Island, in the year. It is also used for many N. Y., at Sea View hospital for the services of national and international tubercular, the new chapel of St. interest. Surrounded by its ancient Luke the Physician is nearing: com churchyard, and occupying an entire pletion. Its slender spire upholds block in the midst of modern sky a gleaming1 bronze Cross, radiant scrapers, it is a national heritage against the sky. The City Mission and shrine. Society, through this chapel and Church Hospital through its chaplain there, is trying Carries on Work to bring to the Protestant patients St. Mary’s Hospital for Children, of the hospital, the Cross and all it New York City, which, because o f means. In their cots in the pavilions, financial difficulties, was obliged to men, women and children whom the close its doors on January 1st, 1935, woes of life have overtaken, have is now being reopened as a hospital only to turn their heads on their for convalescent and undernourished pillows to find that the radiance children. During the summer the streaming from the Cross adds new children will be cared for at the lustre to their day. To the fact that home in Norwalk, Connecticut, and "the Christian ministry of Chaplain BISHOP MANNING brought for the winter to the hospi Hildebrand has been reaching the New York’s Present Diocesan tal in New York, which will be used liearts of patients for over twenty- as a receiving house during the one years, the chapel itself is witness. entire year. Increased facilities for The building of it was undertaken cian is one of the very few building convalescent care of the children in largely because of a substantial leg projects which have been undertaken th poorer districts of New York are acy to the City Mission Society from in the diocese during the past few greatly needed and it is hoped that a former grateful patient, although years, and it is gratifying to realize many of the patients will come from the vital need for an adequate place that it has provided employment our own parishes. For the present of worship made it almost impera for numerous carpenters and other the number will be limited to sixty, tive. craftsmen. But more than that, after and both boys and girls will be re Ground was broken, in November, years of faithful and devoted serv ceived. The children will be under 1934: the corner stone was laid by ice on the part of Chaplain and Mrs. the Rev. L. Ernest Sunderland, Hildebrand in the wards and in in superintendent of the City Mission adequate rooms set aside for wor Society, in February of this year, ship, the chapel will soon provide a and it is hoped that it will be pos spiritual haven for staff and for Hand-chased, sterling silver sible to hold the first service early walking patients; and for the more BREAD-BOX in June. It is also hoped that it will seriously afflicted, the Cross will be possible to consecrate the chapel glow with peace and joy and its at the time of dedication, which promise of life eternal. means raising a balance of $6,500 The Oldest Church out of the total cost of $26,500. in New York Henry G. D. de Meli is chairman o f St. Paul’s Chapel, Trinity Parish, a special committee which is work Broadway and Ftilton Street, New ing toward that end. York, erected 1766, is the oldest The chapel is a little gem of public building on Manhattan Island architecture, in the style of an with its original structure. Built of English country church. F. de Lan- stone, in the noble Georgian or cey Robinson most generously gave Classic style, with very fine carving his professional services in design and details, it is of outstanding ing it and in advising on its con architectural interest. In Colonial struction,. The beauty of the pictur and Revolutionary times, St. Paul’s esque little structure is enhanced was in the fields. Now it is a centre by its location on the crest of a hill of worship and spiritual activity in overlooking one of the loveliest sec downtown New York. Washington tions of Staten Island and the open attended here regularly when in. We have a wide selection of bread- ocean below the Narrows. New York, as General and as Presi The Chapel of St. Luke the Physi dent, coming here also for his In boxes in sterling silver, both plain and cian is the third one to be built by augural Service, April 30, 1789. His chased. Also, chalices, flagons, patens the City Mission Society1, by special pew is on the north aisle, while Gov. arrangement with the City of New Clinton’s pew is on the south aisle. and silver-mounted cruets. We invite you York, to serve public institutions. The old pulpit still holds the Prince to write for illustrations and prices. The others are the Chapel of the of Wales’ feathers;. The “ Glory” Good Shepherd at City Home, the over the altar was designed by l’En- BLACK, STARR &* FROST gift of the late George Bliss; and fant. The tomb of Gen. Richard GORHAM the Chapel of Christ the Consoler at Montgomery, who fell at Quebec in Jewelers • Silversmiths • Stationers Bellevue Hospital, the gift of the 1775, and was buried here by Act FIFTH AVE. AT 48th ST., NEW YORK late Mrs. A. L. Townsend. Both were of Congress, is in the Broadway NEW JERSEY BRANCH: built in 1889. portico. The fourteen original crystal 586 CENTRAL AVENUE, EAST ORANGE The Chapel of St. Luke the Physi- chandeliers of Waterford glass are

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the immediate care of the Sisters of figuration will always be found not pioneer, and it was here that the St. Mary aided by nurses and attend only the purest observance of fund was started which resulted in ants. The nurses’ home adjoining1 Church traditions, good music and the establishment of St. Luke’s Hos the hospital has been transformed restful atmosphere, but a sense of pital. This parish also pioneered in into a retreat house and a hostel welcome which cannot be surpassed. various phases o f social service work for paying guests. A series of re The church became known as and for missions, both foreign and treats and conferences have been “ The Little - Church - Around - the - domestic. After a brief interval fol arranged for 1935-36 under the Corner” in 1870 when George Hol lowing the death of Dr. Muhlenberg, charge of experienced conductors. land, an actor, died and a neighbor another long rectorship began at the Arrangements may also be made by ing church declined to perform the Holy Communion, that of the Rev. priests for use of the retreat house funeral services but suggested that Henry Moffatt, which began in 1879 for their own groups o f retreatants there was a little church around the and extended until 1929. During and individual retreats may be made corner where they did such things that time the church was greatly at any time. The Sister Superior for strangers. The immortal Joseph beautified and a large endowment will be glad to give any information Jefferson, hearing of this remarked, was added. The present rector is the desired concerning hospital, retreat “ God Bless the Little Church Around Rev. Worcester Perkins who began house or hostel. the Corner.” “ Rip Van Winkle’s” his rectorship in 1930. benediction spread throughout the The First Church actor world, and from that day on Home for Old Men of the Transfiguration The Church of the Transfiguration and Aged Couples It probably is not generally known has come to be known as the church The Home for Old Men and Aged that the first church in the Anglican home of the theatrical profession Couples, located at Amsterdam Ave communion to be called the Trans and affectionately referred to as nue, opposite the Cathedral in New figuration is the one in New York “ The - Little - Church - Around - the - York, was established in 1872 for that was founded in 1848 by the Rev. Corner.” the purpose of caring for those who, G. H. Houghton. The church has The present rector is the Rev. Ran accustomed to the comforts of life, been many times enlarged, but dolph Ray who celebrated the twelfth find themselves in their declining never at the cost of harmony, beauty anniversary of his rectorship on years prevented by misfortune from and restful friendliness. It cherishes April 10 th. providing a home for themselves. many beautiful and quaint windows; For 63 years it has served as a real there are many valuable paintings, Holy Communion home for hundreds of delightful old and, surmounting all, the magnifi Has Noble Record people, among them bankers, law cent high altar with its beautiful The Church of the Holy Com yers, artists, doctors, teachers and reredos, the work of Calvert, Her munion, built in 1844, has had a clergymen. At the Home today 17 rick & Riedinger, ecclesiastical art noble record in the life of New York couples, 49 old men and the widows ists of New York. City. This parish was founded by of eight former residents are spend Visitors know that at the Trans the Rev. W. A. Muhlenberg, a great ing their remaining years in peace

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Ten T H E WITNESS May 9, 1935 and comfort. The Home, with a incoming traffic averages from 8,000 capacity of 95, is a modern brick to 12,000 seamen. Eighty per cent of building, with light and sunny the men served are American citi rooms; delightful living rooms, a zens. The other twenty per cent game room, smoking room and represent seamen from every nation chapel. On the top floor is an in in the world, of every age, rating firmary with a nurse always in at and creed. Thus the port of New tendance. The Home is maintained York welcomes in this building tens by voluntary contributions, and of thousand of merchant seamen to since its waiting list indicates in make it their “ shore home” . creasing need, any amount will aid in this fine effort to bring to a happy conclusion many worthy lives. St. Luke’s Chapel, Seaview, S. i. A Century of Achievement at Seamen’s Institute IRVING A. KAPLAN The Seamen’s Church Institute of New York was the outgrowth of a Plumbing & Heating 737— 48th St. Brooklyn, N. Y. society known as the Young Men’s EARLY FLOAT INC CHURCH Missionary Society, which was or Of the Seamen’s Church Institute ganized in 1834 and incorporated in 1844 as the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Sea thirteen-story building at 25 South FOR THE men in the City and Port of New Street with sleeping accommodations York. In 1906 the charter was for 500 men. For the first time in JUNE amended and the name changed to its history the Institute was fully Seamen’s Church Institute of New equipped to serve the seamen’s every WEDDING York. The object of the Institute need. A Prayer Book for the bride, in was to build floating or other In 1917 the Board of Managers churches and to provide chaplains decided that an annex to the build white French Morocco or smooth to act as missionaries in these ing with accommodations for 1,000 calf, makes a distinctive present. churches. In 1854 the objects were more was needed. In 1929 this Priced from $3.00 to $6.25 amended to include sailors’ boarding $3,000,000 annex was completed. Of houses, the lodging and entertain this sum $810,000 is still to be paid. Our Stationery Department will ment of seamen in the seaport of The buildng now represents the last supply samples and prices of en New York, for the purpose of car word in institutional philanthropy, graved Wedding Invitations on ing for their moral, spiritual, mental providing hotel, restaurant, post and bodily welfare. The original office, “ bank” , clinic, library, em request. charter provided that $500,000 be ployment bureau, club rooms, read spent for the propagation of the ing, writing and game rooms and GEORGE W. JACOBS & CO. gospel through the various mission Chapel facilities and services, thus 1726 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. homes for seamen; in 1906 this fulfilling all the shore needs of mer amount was increased to $6,000,000. chant seamen. A twenty-four hour The Institute during its long history has conducted services in three floating churches, the Church of Our Saviour, 1843-1866, the Church of the Holy Comforter, 1846, and the floating Church of Our Saviour, 1869-1910. Three blocks from the Church of Our Saviour the Lind Dejongh Cov Inc. Institute took over a residence and established the East Side Mission 1 HANSON PLACE House for deep water seamen. The work of the Institute was carried on BROOKLYN, N. Y. there from 1870 to 1906. Friends of the Institute made generous contributions, so that in THE GENERAL CONTRACTORS 1913 it was possible to open a new for the new chapel of LOVISC. TIFFANY STVDIOS

CORPORATION St. Luke the Physician 46 WEST TWENTY-THIRD STREET NEW YORK erected at Sea View Hospital STAINED CLASS for the Tubercular of the WINDOWS & MOSAICS CHVRCH DECORATION INDOOR M EM O R IALS NEW YORK CITY MISSION SOCIETY OVTDOOR MEMORIALS MAVSOLEVMS

The Home for hospitals of the city. Later the plan The Beginning of Incurables was laid before the people of the All Angels’ Parish The Home for Incurables and the Church throughout the city, the re Prior to 1859 when the property Kane Pavilion for In,curable Cancer sponse was generous, and soon a fine which is now Central Park was set was founded in 1866 by a group of hospital was erected. At first the aside by the city for that purpose, clergymen of the Episcopal Church. service offered was limited to Epis a small frame building which had It has always maintained its con copalians but later it became catho been used as a Colored mission and tacted with the Church though it is lic in its benefits and the support which was on land needed by the non-sectarian as to patients and came from people without regard to city, was moved to West End Ave religious distinction, with many of employees. During the years it has nue and 81st Street, and became its largest gifts of late years coming grown slowly but steadily to a All Angels’ parish, with the Rev. present capacity of 303 beds in the from people not of our communion. Charles E. Phelps as first rector. Home and 46 in the Kane Pavilion. The Largest Parish The present church building was There is a staff of resident physi in the Country consecrated by Bishop Potter in cians and nurses, with a consulting The largest parish in the United 1890 and further enlarged and beau medical staff drawn, from the lead States is Trinity Parish, New York, tified six years later. Of particular ers of the profession in New York. with a communicant list of 8,684 interest are the murals by Violet Recreation includes radio to all beds, persons. The mother church is old Oakley, the sculptured rail and moving pictures, occupational ther Trinity at the head of Wall Street pulpit by Karl Bitter and the beau apy teaching, concerts and plays, on Broadway. There are chapels of tiful Baldachino in the chancel. The and of course games and reading. the parish in different parts of the Rev. S. DeLancey Townsend, now The Home is located amid beautiful city; the Intercession at 155th rector emeritus, served as assistant grounds of ten acres, with the trees, Street with 2,933 communicants; from 1887 to 1897, and as rector flowers and shrubbery offering a St. Anges at 92nd Street with 3,059; from the latter date to 1928. During most refreshing retreat for those St. Augustine’s with 152; St. Corn his rectorship the parish increased who live in this unique home. The elius’ with 65; St. Luke’s with 505; in size and influence and was noted present building, constructed in St. Paul’s, mentioned elsewhere, both for its liberal leadership and 1930-31 represents the very latest with 349 and Trinity Chapel with for the quality of its music. The in design and equipment, and par 339. Old Trinity has 1,166 communi present rector is the Rev. George A. tial endowment make possible excep cants. In addition the parish aids Trowbridge, under whose leadership tionally low rates. other parishes and missions in the the parish is continuing to be one of diocese. The present rector is the the outstanding parishes of the west, Great Church Hospital Rev. Frederic S. Fleming. side of the city. in New York For a period of seventy-seven years, without a moment’s interrup tion, the sick have been cared for in the diocese of New York at St. NOT JOST A VACATION...but INSURANCE Luke’s Hospital. Its present build ing is near the cathedral on Morn- against the hard business of ingside Heights, but for many years living which lies ahead. before the new plant was occupied Even little children are car- in 1896, St. Luke’s was located on Fifth Avenue on the present site of rying burdens nowadays far ' . I f the University Club. The Hospital to o heavy for their frail had its beginning in 1846 when, on shoulders. the Festival of St. Luke, the Rev. t W. A. Muhlenberg, impressed with A little respite in the coun- the lack of hospital accommodations try may determine the life in the city, addressed his congrega long heritage in body and tion at the Church of the Holy spirit of many a troubled, un- I P I Communion on the subject of hospi . . ; j f t tals and proposed to devote half of dernourished child. the offering that day for the pur We shoujd care for at least I I l i .y J L . pose. To that end $15 was set aside 2,000 of them this year in our —the beginning of one of the great fresh air homes. $15 will work wonders for one child by providing two weeks of nourishing food, fresh air and sun shine, and wholesome fun. DECORATION MURALS $75 would mean that throughout the entire sum mer, some child would be benefiting by your gen ALTARS STAINED GLASS i erosity for two weeks. LIGHTING FIXTURES Larger and smaller amounts do their part STATIONS ART METAL proportionately. Can we afford not to take out this insurance, RAMBUSCH against the future of our Church children? Please make checks to Eugene W . Stetson, Treasurer Designers Decoralars and ^Draftsmen N. Y. Protestant Episcopal City Mission Society 2 West 45th St -** New York City 38 Bleecker Street, New York

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Twelve T H E WITNESS May 9, 1935 NATIONAL COUNCIL fragan Bishop, in charge of Negro Shanghai; William F. Draper, stu work in the Southwest, receives a dent at Alexandria, appointed mis HOLDS ITS REGULAR salary of $1,613 from the Council, sionary to Japan, he himself having SPRING MEETING with no allowance for travel, house upkeep, insurance or taxes. He was Reduction in Price for a limited time Reported by W. B. Spofford voted $600 more. HOLY BAPTISM Plans for the building of a new The House of Bishops has been re The Ministration of Holy Baptism hospital plant in Shanghai, the re quested to postpone action in elect sult of the merging of two old mis from the Book of Common Prayer ing a bishop of Idaho until the next Printed in great primer type, bound in sionary hospitals, St. Luke’s and St. General Convention, in order to give black cloth, red edges, gold cross on Elizabeth’s, was one of the chief ac cover, 20 pages. W as 75 Cents, now 25 more time for further consideration Cents, $2.50' per dozen, carriage extra. tions taken at the meeting of the of the advisability of a change in the The Clergy will welcome this volume, National Council in New York last which is intended for use at the Font by missionary district boundaries of the the Clergy, Sponsors, etc. A light-weight week. From money in hand, land has Northwest. handy book with very large clear print. been purchased, costing $357,839 in This is an opportunity that should not be When and if a new secretary for overlooked. Chinese dollars, and plans drawn for rural work is appointed he will func Publishers, Booksellers, Importers. a building to cost $417,600 in the tion under the department of domes EDWIN S. GORHAM, INC. 18 West 45 Street New York same kind of money. There is money tic missions rather than social ser enough in hand to build and equip ESTABLISHED 1900 vice as heretofore. the hospital, there is a considerable A considerable number of mission amount for endowment, and, when aries were appointed, mostly to fill the present sites of the old hospitals vacancies: Miss Anita Young, a are vacated and put to commercial teacher, to the Philippines; Miss use, they are expected to yield in Pauline West, nurse, to the Philip come for the present hospital sup pines; Miss Lillie Saunders, nurse, port. The Council directed its of Miss Lettye Wheaton, teacher, Miss ficers to send approval of the plans Montie Horne, nurse, to schools of when warranted. the American Church Institute; Miss One of the first acts at the meet Marian Hurst, nurse, to St. Luke’s, ing was approval of the Challenge Schedule amounting to $386,885, which is the sum approved by Gen A LAXATIVE eral Convention over the Emergency Schedule. It is hoped that this money Easy To Give Children can be raised. When it is, 5 per cent CONSTIPATION makes a child feel of the 10 per cent cut in missionary badly enough. It is no longer necessary to salaries and 10 per cent of the 20 per add to the cent cut in salaries of the workers little one’s dis and secretaries at the Church Mis comfort by sions House will be restored. The giving a bad- tasting laxa treasurer, Dr. Lewis B. Franklin, re tive if y o u ported that receipts to date were have a bottle considerably lower than last year, of SYRUP which he attributed to the late date OF BLACK- of Easter which has delayed remit DRAUGHT FINE IRISH LINEN tances from Church school Lenten in the house. specially selected for Church use. 36" to Children like 54" wide, cut any length. Samples of 12 offerings. The special order of busi qualifiés on request. Mary Fawcett Co., 812 ness for the next Council meeting, to it. Made of Berkeley Avenue, Trenton, N. J. be held in September rather than official U. S. pharmacopeia SAINT AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA: Guest October in order to work out plans sennaandrhu House of Sisters of The Resurrection : sunny, for the next every member canvass, cheerful rooms. home atmosphere, com barb, with cin fortable beds, good meals, modern building is to be a conference on methods of namon, cloves on pleasant residence street. Charges reason able. Those seeking spiritual strengthening, securing better support for the mis and sugar or merely rest and quiet : convalescents not sionary work. syrup to make needing special attendance, will find Rest- it pleasant- haven helpful. Neither hospital nor mental So many Americans drop in the cases received. References asked from strang tasting. In 50- ers. Apply to Sister-in-Charge, House of office of Bishop Littell of Honolulu, cent bottles at The Nazarene. Resthaven, Saint Augustins. traveling to and from the Orient, drug stores, or if not obtainable locally may Florida. that he was voted an appropriation be ordered by mail (send 50 cents) from the ALTAR BREADS— Orders promptly filled. of $1,000 to cover the cost of enter manufacturer—The Chattanooga Medicine Saint Mary’s Convent, Kenosha, Wis. taining. Bishop Demby, Negro Suf- Co., Chattanooga, Tennessee. CATHEDRAL STUDIO, CHURCH EMBROI- deries, Altar and pulpit hangings, etc. Stoles from $6.50. £ Burse, veil $10 up. Sur plices $8 up. 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Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Fourteen T H E WITNESS May-9, 1935 even by normal business methods of trict of North Texas and the 10 th period of financial stringency for competition.” Quaker committees in anniversary of the consecration of direct social service to her own the United States are also active in Bishop Seaman. Bishop Seaman was members and those outside the following up the results of the Nye present and gave an address. Church; the Rev. George W. Daw commission’s work, and are urging $ $ * son of Newark and the Rev. Floyd their fellow members to make cer Social Service Leaders Van Keuren of New York led the tain that their investments do not Hold Meeting discussion on “ How can diocesan so directly or indirectly implicate them The social service commission of cial service departments help parish in the industry. the province of New York and New clergy find and use available social * * * Jersey held its annual meeting at resources,” and the new general secretary of the Greater New York Executive Board the retreat house in Bernardsville, of Auxiliary Meets N. J., April 24-26, with Bishop Gil Federation of Churches, the Rev. R. The national executive board of bert of New York as chairman. W. Searle, spoke on “ Practical the Woman’s Auxiliary met in New There was a quiet hour led by the methods of co-operation with other York on April 26-29, devoting most Rev. Thomas Conover. Then the religious groups for social better o f the time to a consideration of Rev. Daniel McGregor, professor at ment.” underlying questions of policy and the General Seminary, read a paper 4* * * the character of the work as a on the Church’s part in developing Yale Dean for whole. Bishop Perry in a brief ad a Christian social order; the Rev. C. General Commencement dress urged the continuing personal Rankin Barnes opened a discussion Dean Clarence W. Mendell of activity on the part of every Church on the Church’s responsibility in a Yale is to be the commencement member as the real basis of the Forward Movement, and Council- Treasurer Lewis B. Franklin voiced a warning against a dangerous com placency which may result from Services of Leading Churches meeting the Emergency Schedule, The Cathedral of St. John St. Paul s Church which is the minimum for 1935. Flatbush, Brooklyn, N. Y. the Divine Sunday Services: Ratification of the proposed federal Cathedral Heights Holy Communion, 7 :30 a. m. child labor amendment was favored New York City Holy Communion Choral, 8 :30 a. m. Sundays: 8 and 9, Holy Communion. Morning Service, 11:00 a. m. on a roll call vote; 15 for; one 9 :30, Children’s Service. 10. Morning Evening Service, 8 :00 p. m. against; 2 not voting and 2 absent. Prayer or Litany. 11, Holy Communion Immediate passage of the anti-lynch and Sermon. 4, Evening Prayer and St. James’ Church, New York Sermon. Madison Avenue and 71st Street ing bill now before the United States Weekdays: 7:30, Holy Communion The Rev. H. W . B. Donegan, Rector Senate was also urged in a petition (also on Saints’ Days at 10). Morning Sunday Services Prayer. 5, Evening Prayer (choral). 8 A. M,— Holy Communion. to President Roosevelt, signed by Organ Recital, Saturdays, 4 :30. 11 A. M.— Morning Prayer and Sermon. board members.. The board also 8 P. M.— Choral Evensong and Sermon. urged that effective action be taken Church of St. Mary the Virgin New York Trinity Church, New York in dioceses and parishes on matters 46th St. between 6th and 7th Aves. Rev. Granville M. Williams, S.S.J.E. Broadway and Wall St. affecting international, interracial Sunday Masses. 7, 8, 9. 10, 11. Sundays: 8. 9. 11 and 3:30. and other social questions. Vespers and Benediction : 8 P. M. Daily: 8, 12 and 3. Week-day Masses : 7, 8 and 9 :30. 4= 4= v St. Paul’s Cathedral Triple Anniversary Grace Church, New York Buffalo, New York Is Celebrated Rev. W . Russell Bowie, D.D. Sundays: 8, 9 :30. 11 and 4. Broadway at 10th St. Weekdays: 8, 12 :05. The Auxiliary of St. Mary’s Sundays: 8 and 11 A. M. and 8 P. M. Thursdays (Quiet Hour at 11) and Holy Church, Big Spring, Texas, on April Daily: 12:30 except Mondays and Sat Days: 10 :30 a. m. urdays. 22nd observed the 50th anniversary Holy Communion, 11:45 A. M. on Thursdays and Holy Days. Christ Church Cathedral of the organization of the mission Hartford, Conn. by Bishop Garrett, the 25th anniver Cor. Main and Church Streets sary. of the organization of the dis- The Heavenly Rest and Beloved The Very Rev. S. R. Colladay, D.D. D isciple, New York Sundays: 8:00, 10:05, 11:00 a. m .; 7:30 Rev.' Henry Darlington, D.D. p. m. Fifth Ave. and Ninetieth St. Daily: 7:00, 12:10, 5:00. Sundays: Holy Communion 8 a. m. Holy Days and Wednesdays, 11:00 a. m. Sunday School 9 :30 a. m .; Morning Holy Communion. Calvert.Herrick Service and Sermon 11 a. m .: Musical Vespers 4 p. m. Grace and St. Peter’s Church, Thursdays and Holy Days: Holy Com Baltimore, Md. & R iedinger munion at 11 a. m. (Park Avenue and Monument Street) The Rev. Robert S. Chalmers, D.D. 2 & 4 East . 23rd . Street The Incarnation Rev. Gordon B. Wadhams Rev. Bernard McK. Garlick Madison Avenue and 35th Street Sundays: 8, 9 :30 and 11 a. m .; 8 p. m. New . York . City Rev. George A. Robertshaw Week Days: 8 a. m. 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speaker at General this year. The chapters and the building of a O’Ferrall and Archdeacon Hagger. commencement program opens on stronger diocesan organization. Bish The feature of the festival was a May 20 when Bishop Manning will op Parsons was one of the speakers. series of tableaux telling the story preach the baccalaureate sermon. * H* H* of the Cross. The Rev. C. Rankin Barnes is to be Michigan Plans ♦ ♦ the speaker at the alumni service. Vacation Schools Bernardsville Retreat * * * Plans have been announced for House Active New Parish House the 1935 daily vacation schools in During the past winter the retreat for Florida the diocese of Michigan, with a new house at Bernardsville, N. J. has St. James, Leesburg, Fla., where handbook, “ The Master’s Way,” been of extensive usefulness to the Rev. R. F. Blackford is rector, having been prepared for their use. various Church organizations and is to start putting up a new parish Last year’s manual, “ The Story of interdenominational groups for re house next month. Worship” was enthusiastically re treats and conferences. Mr. William ^ ^ ^ ceived and it is expected that the Sturgis is the director. Convention of present handbook will have even * H= * South Florida wider use. Last summer there were Providence Pastor The convention of the diocese of forty parishes operating schools, Strengthens Cathedral South Florida is meeting this week mostly with sessions of from two to The Rev. Arthur H. Beaty, min at Daytona Beach, with Bishop three hours daily for ten days. ister of the congregation of the Ca Mikell of Atlanta the preacher at * * * thedral of St. John at Providence the opening service on Tuesday. The Unit of Negro College has notable accomplishments to his Auxiliary is holding their conven Students Formed credit before completing his second tion at the same time, with the At LeMoyne College a Negro unit year there, with a confirmation class Daughters of the King meeting on of Episcopal college students has of 73 and with pledges this year Tuesday. been formed, its activity beginning numbering 580 against 239 last with discussion of Dean Day’s arti year. Mr. Beaty came to Providence News Notes cles on New Frontiers. from Duluth at the suggestion o f from California * * * Bishop Bennett. In explaining his The Rev. W. S. Walters, formerly Girls’ Friendly work to revive the cathedral spirit rector of the Redeemer, St. Louis, Festival Service Mr. Beaty says “ In the first place, has taken charge of Christ Church, The annual festival service of the it is work— calling nights as well as Alameda, California.—The Rev. J. Girls’ Friendly Society of the dio days. It is knowing the parish in P. Turner has been elected president cese of Michigan was held on April timately and having a record of ev of the City Mission Society of San 28th at the cathedral in Detroit, with ery one in the parish— confirmed or Francisco, succeeding the Rev. K. the service conducted by Dean not. Following up new people right L. Viall.— The young people of the diocese met in conference on May 4th, with the program built around the strengthening of individual THE

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