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June 2020 Huntingdon, PA 200Th Anniversary Reflections 200th Anniversary Reflections P a g e | 1 St. John’s Episcopal Church June 2020 Huntingdon, PA 200th Anniversary Reflections Ministers in History Over the next few months our committee will go into depth about each of the men (& women) who have shaped and molded our parish. It is Sandy McBride, 1998 interesting as they come sometimes as deacons, or missionaries, or priests, and in the early years – even when travel was difficult, they were part of multiple churches. Inside this issue This month we will explore our beginnings and Trinity Sunday……...…….…........… 2 the many missionaries who came to preach and This Month in St. John’s History …... 3 how our members reacted… Our Beginnings …………….….…… 3 1. Dr William Smith (1774) ....…...… 3 Come join us on our journey as we look at the 2. Rev. Jackson Kemper (1814) ……..4 last 200 years… 3. Rev Charles G. Snowden (1820) …5 Faithfully, 4. Rev. Norman Nash (1823) ………. 6 5. Rev. H.F. M. Whitesides (1836).….7 Bettianne Quinn 6. Rev. John Francis Hoff (1836). …..8 Special thanks & credits …..…....…...9 Chart of rectors covered……...….…..9 Addendum …………………………..9 Fun trip through time…last pages P a g e | 2 This month liturgically – Trinity Sunday June 15th, 1935 Special Services at St John's Church St John's Episcopal Church will observe Trinity Sunday, June 16th, (1935) with a specially beautiful service of Holy Communion at 10:45. The rector, the Reverend William T. Sherwood, will deliver the sermon on the subject, “the Doctrine of the Holy Trinity - What does it mean to practical Christian living today?” Trinity Sunday is a festival observed by the entire Christian Church, for the past 15 centuries, and comes always immediately after Whitsunday, or Pentecost, which in turn comes the 50th day after Easter, and commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit on the waiting disciples in the upper room. On the Trinity Festival, the altar is decked in white and the ornaments are all white and it is a general day of rejoicing. The doctrine which is brought to mind, of the “three in one and one and three,” though one of the central teachings of the Christian religion is not easily understood - perhaps never fully comprehended; still like the scientific doctrine of relativity, which is also a doctrine hard to understand, this teaching does have practical consequences of the greatest importance, and is now proved by the results which flow from it. In this way it is entirely analogous to the scientific doctrine mentioned. Huntingdon Daily News, June 15, 1935 Trinity Sunday is the first Sunday after Pentecost. This year it falls on June 7, 2020 Hopefully we too will have a “specially beautiful service!” 1. Of the Holy Trinity Almighty God, you have revealed to your Church your eternal Being of glorious majesty and perfect love as one God in Trinity of Persons: Give us grace to continue steadfast in the confession of this faith, and constant in our worship of you, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; for you live and reign, one God, now and forever. Amen. Preface of Trinity Sunday P a g e | 3 This Month in Our Beginnings… St. John’s History As we look at our beginnings, we also need to look at the town of Huntingdon’s beginnings and our nation. On June 20, 1845 John W Between 1754 & 1763 was the French and Indian war, Claghorn of Philadelphia followed by the stamp act of 1765. Anglican Ministers presented a bell for the in general were thought to be partial to England, and new church. many left during the Revolutionary war. Since there June 5, 1873 Rev. Mead were no bishops yet in the colonies, to become a accepted the formal call to minister one had to be ordained in England (or preach at St. John. Scotland). One such minister was The Rev. Dr. William Smith. He was born near Aberdeen, Scotland, Sept. 7, June 20, 1883 the Vestry 1727; graduated from the University of Aberdeen in sent a letter to other Juniata River Valley March 1747; and arrived in America on May 1, 1751. towns asking them to join His views made an impression on Benjamin Franklin, in paying for a missionary who invited him to take charge of the Academy of to serve them all – but it Philadelphia (now Univ. of Penn), but first Dr. Smith was unsuccessful. went to England in 1753, and in December of that year June 14, 1890 Rev. he was ordained successively Deacon and then Priest in Stewart Keeling began his the Church of England. He returned to Philadelphia in ministry here. May 1754, and on the 24th of that month was installed as Provost of the Academy of Phila. Yet friction started June 1, 1910 the Rev. between him and Franklin, and his desire to leave Henry Sherman Smart Philadelphia caused him to go south to Maryland where took charge of the church and was the author of one he helped start and become the first president of the first histories of the of Washington College in Chestertown, MD. church. Smith also ventured westward. In 1767, he bought a large June 1, 1941 Father tract of land along the Standing Stone Creek. The next Sherwood left after 9 year (1768) he laid out a town which he named years of service. Huntingdon in honor of the Countess of Huntingdon who June 1981 – altar was had made a generous contribution to Washington College, moved to its present which he had just founded. In 1774, he returned to location. Huntingdon and announced that he would be glad to baptize anyone desiring to receive the sacrament. To his surprise, 80 persons presented themselves for baptism -- the first such service held in Huntingdon County. This has been considered the beginnings of the Episcopal Ministry in Huntingdon. While many of the early settlers of Huntingdon were Episcopalians, and it is known that Dr. Smith on his visits here frequently held services; the formal date of the organization of the church is not known. P a g e | 4 Dr. William Smith (1774) continued- “Union Church” was the name of the church at On Nov. 14, 1795, the corner of Church and Fourth Streets. The there is a record that Lutherans started it, we joined them, then the Dr. Smith conveyed a Presbyterians. Services were held on alternate lot of ground for Sundays by the three congregations until 1826. church purposes in town to trustees for was ordained deacon in Philadelphia, and then a each religious body priest in 1814. He became assistant to Bishop then represented in White, having charge of three parishes in that the population. The city—a position held till June, 1831, a period of trustees for the twenty years. In vacation periods (1812, 1814, Protestant Episcopal 1819, and 1820), he served as border Church were Benjamin Elliott, Richard Smith missionary, doing excellent work for the church (his son), John Cadwallader, and Thomas in the western parts of Pennsylvania and Whittaker. Virginia, and eastern Ohio. While Rev. Smith founded the town; bought The Huntingdon Gazette of October 27, 1814 land and offered services when he was here, contains the following announcement. “The he never was a full time resident. He did members of Protestant Episcopal Church are however return to the Philadelphia area and hereby informed that the Rev. Jackson Kemper was very active at the Episcopal conventions. will preach at Huntington Sunday next the 30th He had 7 children and 2 of his sons came to in and as such of the places in the country after live in Huntingdon. Richard Smith, his fifth that time as the members of said shall require of son, studied law and was active in politics. His wife, Letitia Nixon Smith, devoted her him. Parents who have children to baptize and time to the interests of education, Sunday adults desirous of baptism are advised to School and church. Thomas Smith, second embrace this opportunity.” There he found “a son, settled in Huntingdon after studying log church in a fair state of preservation, a medicine, and died in 1787 after a severe parsonage lapsing to ruin, and a little flock attack of yellow fever in Huntingdon. without a pastor, still faithful to the church and attached to her worship.” It was on his return 2. Right Reverend Jackson Kemper trip home from visiting several churches in the (1814) west – Pittsburgh, West Virginia, and Ohio that we think he visited Huntingdon. We have every The next minister to reason to believe he was the first clergyman of come on visits to the area was the Right the Church who ever preached west of the Rev. Jackson Kemper, Alleghanies. D.D. He was born at In 1831, Rev. Kemper became rector in Pleasant Valley, N.Y., Norwalk, Conn. In 1834, he went west again to Dec. 24, 1789. He Wisconsin for the Domestic and Foreign graduated Columbia Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal college in 1809, as Church. At the general convention of the valedictorian of his class. As soon as he had American church, in 1835, Dr. Kemper was reached the canonical age of 21 (in 1811), he elected its first missionary bishop, with his field P a g e | 5 Rev. Kemper (1814) continued 3. Rev. Charles G Snowden (1820) being the “Northwest.” Rev. Rev. Snowden had a short career as a priest and Kemper was Bishop White’s at St. John’s. From the Diocese Annual last Bishop consecration that Journals, it was reported that in 1820 – Charles he officiated. Kemper’s G. Snowden was a missionary at Millerstown territory committed to his and places adjacent.
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