CONNECTIONS CONNECTIONS c onnections CONNECTIONS CONNECTIONS Connections ConnectionsOct– Nov 19 Bicentenary 2019-2024 CONNECTIONS CONNECTIONS Connections Celebrating the Bicentenary of St James’ Andrew Sempell p3 Uluru Statement of the Heart Sarah Dillon p6 INSIDEConnectionsColin’s Corner Colin Middleton p9 + MUCH MORE Connections CONNECTIONS CONNECTIONS c onnections CONNECTIONS CONNECTIONS Connections Connections Oct – Nov 19 Bicentenary 2019-2024 CONNECTIONSCONTENTS Celebrating the Bicentenary of St James’ Andrew Sempell ......................p3 Why we need to listen to the Uluru Statement from the Heart Sarah Dillon ...p6 Colin’s Corner Colin Middleton ...................................................................p9 A Hymn for ChildrenCONNECTIONS Michael Horsburgh ..................................................p10 Ringing a Peal Marylon Coates & Jackie Dettmann ................................p13 Book Review: Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage Michael Horsburgh .........p16 Solid Foundations in Shifting Times Mark Hutchinson ..........................p20 Profile: Allan Simpson BEM Brooke Shelley ...........................................p24 St James’ Retreat:Connections A Reflection Ross & Libby Hindmarsh .....................p28 A Long Shadow Gary Crockett .................................................................p30 Music Notes Alistair Nelson .....................................................................p33 St James’ Institute News Christopher Waterhouse ..................................p34 St Aidan lives on Raymond & Alanna Nobbs ...........................................p36 John Bennett watercolour. St James’ Archives. Music at St James’Connections ...................................................................................p38 Advance Oct/Nov Events Sunday 6 October & Monday 7 October Notice Commemoration of the Laying of the Foundation Stone 1 December ConnectSaturdayio 12 nsOctober 7:30pm Haydn - The Creation (see back page) Advent Carols Friday 15 November Bicentenary Gala Dinner (see page 5) October-November 2019 Introduction by The Rev’d Celebrating the Andrew Sempell Rector of St James’ Bicentenary of St James’ Church There are many stories told in the sacred Governor set about a building programme 11 February 1824 by the Senior Chaplain of space called St James’ Church. These range to establish the infrastructure of a growing the Colony, the Reverend Samuel Marsden. from those of the Aboriginal people whose community. Macquarie had a concern for The building went on to serve as the first stories are older than recorded history, to the good order and morality of society. Anglican cathedral in Australia and the a Judeo-Christian one of faith that is about He and his wife Elizabeth therefore set second parish of Sydney. four thousand years old, and on to the about emancipating convicts, establishing Over the past two hundred years, St coming of new peoples to this land, a little social institutions, and encouraging the James’ has created significant ministries over two hundred and thirty years ago. In all observance of Sunday worship. To achieve in worship, music, education, spirituality, of these narratives, we recognise that God this, however, Sydney needed more than ethics, and welfare support to homeless and is present creating and sustaining the land one parish church. young people. It has also become a place and people. Macquarie’s plans were ambitious―too of advocacy for church reform, especially St James’ is built on the land of the Gadigal ambitious! He planned to build a grand in the areas of women’s ministry, the people of the Eora Nation, who have lived church in George Street to be a cathedral, inclusion of people of differing sexualities, here for over 50,000 years. We therefore and many other significant public buildings. and care for refugees and asylum seekers. acknowledge their custodianship and This included the construction of a Over the next five years, St James’ will priority in this place. courthouse at the northern end of Hyde celebrate its history, strengthen its current Park, with a school beside it. Across the In 1788 a fleet of ships, under the command life and ministry, and contemplate its future road was the barracks for the convicts who of Captain Arthur Phillip, landed in what as a distinctive part of the life of the city. In were working on the construction projects. came to be known as Sydney Cove and this respect, the church has an open-door established a settlement. It consisted of a On 7 October 1819 the foundation stone policy, welcoming all people regardless of military garrison overseeing almost 750 for the courthouse was laid by Governor age, race, sexual orientation or religion, male and female convicts and their children. Macquarie. Beside him stood the newly and also celebrates its connection with It was a beginning, but not an easy time as arrived Commissioner John Bigge, sent the traditional custodians of the land. Our the colony ran short of rations on several out by the British Government to review hope is that, in this sacred space, people occasions. the mounting costs of running the colony. will come to appreciate the importance of Macquarie’s plans were reigned in. The the Christian faith in everyday life, through With the First Fleet came a Church of cathedral was not to be, the courthouse was worship, spirituality, ideas, mission and England Chaplain, the Reverend Richard to become a church, and the school was to music. Johnson. He too struggled in his ministry become a courthouse. to a group of convicts, soldiers and others As part of our looking back, we contemplate who were little interested in his services. Building work on the new church of St the meaning of an article written for the Nevertheless, with much effort a church James’ commenced under the direction church centenary in 1919 by the then was built, and a ministry established that of convict architect Francis Greenway in Rector, the Reverend Dr Philip Micklem, developed into what is now St Philip’s early 1820, using convict labour, locally and which appeared in The Monthly Church Church in York Street. made bricks and native timber. The first Messenger. It is of its time, but also ahead service in the church was held on 6 January of its time, still describing much of what In 1810, with the arrival of Governor 1822 for the construction workers, well makes St James’ a special place in the life Macquarie, the colony began to gain some before the church was finished in 1823. of the city and beyond. political and social stability. The new The church was finally consecrated on 3 Bicentenary 2019-2024 CONNECTIONS CHURCH Music Life & Learning on the birth and growth to manhood of a endears the church to many, and which is TheCHURCH Rev’d Dr Philip MicklemMusic Life & Learning few people in a free land. From the grant recalled on such an occasion as this. Many The Centenary Festival of representative institutions due mainly owe to St. James’ the best that is in them. CHURCH OctoberMusic 4-13.Life [1919] & Learning to the devoted labours of W. Wentworth, Baptised at its font, confirmed, and it may Australia has never turned back from the be, married at its Chancel steps, kneeling ‘The CHURCHCentenary celebrationsMusic areLife &to Learning take path of advance to nationhood, and in again and again at its Altar, it is bound up place very shortly... It is well, then, that the last five years the valour of her sons with the most sacred moments in many at thisCHURCH stage we shouldMusic makeLife &clear Learning to on many battlefields in a world-wide war lives: and often it is not only the present ourselves for what the celebrations stand. has won for her in the world’s eyes the generation, but two or three preceding For ourCHURCH own sakes andMus icfor the sakeLife & Learning of the recognition of her status and privilege of generations in a family which through questioning world without, we need to nationhood. having worshipped in turn in this church be prepared with an answer when we are have made it trebly dear to them to-day. asked, “What mean ye by this service?”— The building then recalls the epoch So, too, it has been the scene and centre Ex. xii 26. during which our citizenship in a great of countless friendships formed and kept, Commonwealth was slowly yet surely won. Of all anniversarries [sic] in the history of and of a rich and happy fellowship. For Yet it stands for far more than a century the Church or nation the hundredth stands St. James’ stands for a brotherhood not of secular history. It represents also the out with special prominence. History is of those who at present worship within religious life of the people of this land, the divided up, somewhat artificially indeed, its walls, but also of those scattered history in Australia of the Mother-Church into centuries. It is this period which is far and wide who look back to it as their within which that religious life has been selected as a representative epoch, when former spiritual home and regard it still lived. It was erected during a period at which the past is surveyed by the historian. with affection and gratitude. Last, but not the clergy were Government chaplains. When we think of the sixteenth, or the least, through the influence and teaching It saw the institution of the episcopate in eighteenth or nineteenth centuries certain of its successive clergy, and through its Australia, and the gradual subdivision of characteristics spring to our minds with orderly worship and ritual, it has led to the the land into dioceses, and subsequently which those periods are bound up; and dedication of many lives to the service of provinces of the Church. It witnessed hence there attaches a special significance God in the ministry of the Church. the growth of synodal government in to a festival which commemorates the the Church, and the process by which All this, then, and more, the festival will hundredth birthday of a church, and the the bishops, originally appointed by the recall as we unite in thanking God for our century of which our Church is the symbol Crown under letters patent, themselves goodly heritage.