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Consecration followed just three months later, on April 22, in All Saints, Worcester. Bishop Thomas F. Davies of Michigan, whose son was to succeed Dr. Vinton nine years later, was Consecrator. Co-consecrators were Bishops Frederick D. Hutington of Central New York and Chauncey B. Brewster of Connecticut. The presenters were Bishops Lawrence and Frederick Burgess of Long Island. Bishop Henry C. Potter of New York preached the sermon.
Alexander Hamilton Vinton was the son of General David H. Vinton and the nephew of the Rev. Francis H. Vinton and of the noted Evangelical, Rev. Alexander H. Vinton, who served so long in Massachusetts, as well as elsewhere. Born in the ancsetral home near Pomfret, Connecticut, he was educated at St. Stephen's College, Annandale, New York, and the General Theological Seminary in New York City. After a brief two years in New Jersey, young Vinton was called to the rectorship of the Church of the Holy Com- forter in Philadelphia, where he stayed six years. In 1884, he went to All Saints, Worcester. Afer eighteen years, he became Diocesan, meeting his first Convention as Bishop the next day in Christ Church, Springfield, which was chosen as the See city. Forty-eight parishes and missions, mostly small places, with a total of 8,258 communicants, marked the start of the episcopate. Fifty-six parishes
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and missions, having 12,760 confirmed persons, with 8,577 making a recorded communion during the year, were listed at the time of the Bishop's death in 1911. Total diocesan contributions in that year were over $227,000. In 1902, the 48 parishes and missions had contributed to all objects the sum of $174,478.74.
In the short nine years of the Vinton episcopate, eight new missions were organized, more than in any subsequent period of like duration. These eight new missions were: St. Andrew's, Ludlow (1904), Christ Church, North Brookfield, and Holy Trinity, Southbridge (1906), St. Mary's, Palmer, and St. Andrew's, Blackin- ton (1907), Christ Church, South Barre, and Trinity, Whitinsville (1908), and All Saints, Springfield (1911). The last two, with Southbridge, have become parishes. South Barre and North Brook- field have remained more or less static for half a century. Ludlow and Blackinton, owing to population changes, have declined con- siderably. The net result, statistically, in the nine years of Bishop Vinton, was to increase the nominal communicants of the Diocese some 50%. Financially, and in the arousing of a diocesan conscious- ness and of missionary zeal, progress, however, was slower. It was five years before sufficient money was raised to buy the former Bishop's House at 1154 Worthington Street, in Springfield. The one great financial alleviation was part of a considerably legacy left by Miss Sophia Walker of Waltham, a legacy made out originally to the undivided diocese. The income of this found varied uses. The Diocese, as a whole, however, remained a group of parochially- minded parishes. The Episcopal Fund grew but slowly. Diocesan assessments had to be heavy.
Bishop Vinton, at his first Convention, made a noble pledge to the Diocese, one nobly kept: "I pledge to you and to the Diocese the devotion of my life wholly to the interests and work required of one who is appointed an overseer in a set portion of the Master's Vine- yard, to bring forth fruit meet to be offered unto Him, and abund- antly according to the nature of the soil. Such as I have, give I unto you."
Bishop Vinton, born in Connecticut, acquired a strong infusion of what is called Connecticut Churchmanship. He was humbly proud of his high office and demanded respect for it. It meant something to be an overseer in the house of God. Yet, welling up through his strong Church consciousness was a deep and warm Evangelical spirit, such as characterized his eminent uncle, after whom he was named. And, again, though he received his theological training before modern Science and modern Biblical learning had made their impact on the Church, he was a great admirer of both Bishop Clark and Phillips Brooks. The river of his life was thus fed from three spiritual springs, the Church emphasis of Connecticut, the bubbling well of Evangelical fervor and the rising rivulet of Broad Church- manship. Such a combination of characteristics, in a semi-virgin field of Church endeavor, would seem, partly at least, to account for
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the striking growth of the Church in his brief nine years of epis- copate. To this we must add the Bishop's warm love for his clergy and people, which even his austere Yankee reserve could not hide.
On January 6, 1911, Bishop Vinton was a co-consecrator at the consecration of James DeWolf Perry, a friend and former rector of Christ Church, Fitchburg, to the episcopate of Rhode Island. A few days later he was taken ill. In a few more days, on January 18, he passed to his reward. He had been consecrated shortly after his fiftieth birthday and died of pneumonia shortly before his fifty- ninth. Would modern medicine have prolonged his days? Very probably .. Bishop Vinton was a bachelor, and wifely care, also, might have staved off or pulled him through the then dread disease.
Bishop Vinton showed his Churchmanship in the instructions which he left for his burial. The funeral service was to include the full Holy Communion, now often called a Requiem. He showed his personal humility in asking that his gravestone be simple and in- clude only his name, the necessary dates and the brief inscription, "Jesu Mercy."
II.
THE EPISCOPATE OF THOMAS FREDERICK DAVIES, JR. 1911 - 1936
Bishop Vinton's death made a new Episcopal election necessary. This, however, was held at the regular meeting of the Convention on May 10. Although four or five men were voted for, only two of them really counted in the balloting. The Rev. Thomas F. Davies, Jr., the relatively young rector of All Saints, Worcester, received a large clerical majority from the start (24 out of 34), holding it to the end. The other important candidate was Bishop Frederick Foote Johnson, missionary Bishop of South Dakota, and former diocesan missionary in Western. Massachusetts, who had fourteen lay unit votes throughout three ballots, but never more than six or eight among the clergy. On the third ballot, enough scattering lay votes came in to give Mr. Davies a bare lay majority. Once again, the Diocese had selected, as its chief, the rector of its largest parish.
The consecration took place in All Saints, Worcester, on October 18, 1911. the consecrator was the Presiding Bishop, Daniel Sylvester Tuttle of Missouri, the "Grand old Man of the Church," and the co-consecrators were Bishops Lawrence of Massachusetts and Brewster of Connecticut. The Rt. Rev. Frederick Burgess of Long Island was the preacher. These last three had all participated in the previous consecration.
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The twenty-five years of the episcopate of Bishop Thomas Frederick Davies, Jr. mark another milestone in the history of the Diocese. He was thirty-nine when consecrated and just sixty-four when he died. His episcopate spanned both World War I and the Great Depression.
Bishop Davies was born on July 20, 1872, in Philadelphia, the son of the future Bishop Thomas F. Davies of Michigan. One of his favorite stories was about a reception in London which he attended as chaplain to his father at a Lambeth Conference. The butler introduced them to the drawing room as "My lord of Mychicken and the Rev. Mr. Dives."
Yale College and the General Theological Seminary, as well as a New York curacy, brought the younger Davies to his first parish, Christ Church, Norwich, Connecticut. When only thirty-one he was called to succeed Bishop Vinton at All Saints, Worcester. In eight years he had made such an impression on parish and diocese that, after three ballots, he was duly elected by a concurrent majority of clergy and laity.
In these twenty-five years, Bishop Davies managed to double the Episcopal Fund, and by a "Bishop's Church Extension Fund" to erect sundry needed Church buildings. Southbridge, Palmer, West Springfield, Whitinsville and Turner's Falls all received adequate places of worship through the medium and stimulation of the Fund. In 1921, the bishop promised the present writer that he would give $2,000 toward a small parish house at St. John's, Millville, if the mission could raise another $1,000. This was promptly done, and the building even more promptly erected by one of the Wardens, Howard F. King. This was only one of the extensive benefits of the Bishop's Fund.
In 1918, Bishop Davies took a three month's trip to Europe preaching everywhere to the American troops in camps and barracks. A diocesan clerical casualty in the War was the Rev. Walton S. Danker, the beloved rector of St. John's, Worcester. He was a captain and the chaplain of the 104th infantry, and died of shell wounds on June 18, 1918. The Bishop described him thus: "Faithful priest, tender pastor, brave soldier, loyal friend."
In 1920, the Rev. Marshall E. Mott, who had served his whole ministry in the Diocese, at Leominster, Webster, and North Adams, was made Archdeacon in particular charge of the missionary work. He thus relieved the Bishop of a considerable burden. For diocesan work was getting more complex every year. In 1929, Christ Church, Springfield, became the Diocesan Cathedral, thus emphasizing a con- siderable advance in diocesan consciousness.
Other events of diocesan importance may be mentioned. in 1927, Lenox School, a Church School, with moderate tuition, was established by the gift of a mansion and grounds in Lenox. Though Lenox School is a school for the whole Province of New England, it
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has close diocesan connections. The Bishop of the Diocese usually is President of the Board of Trustees, and diocesan funds now help greatly with scholarships.
In 1927, Mr. George F. Crane of New York transferred St. Andrew's Chapel at Washington in the Berkshires and its adjacent manor house to the Diocese, with an endowment of $15,000. The manor house was used for ten years as a Holiday House for the Girls Friendly Society. Still later "Bucksteep Manor" became the first of three Conference Centers for the Diocese, and is doing increasingly important work.
In the last four years of his life, Bishop Davies' health steadily deteriorated. He was married at fifty-eight to Mrs. Annie Patton, a member of a well-known Lancaster family. The immediate result of the marriage was to goad the Diocese into buying a more adequate Bishop's House, the one at 83 Ridgewood Terrace, Springfield.
At the 1936 Convention, Bishop Davies asked the Diocese to. call a special session on September 30 to elect a coadjutor. The Convention approved and appointed a Committee to bring in nom- inations. But, in a few weeks, on August 25, 1936, the Bishop had passed away. The Dean of the Cathedral, the Very Rev. Percy T. Edrop, and Archdeacon Mott conducted the burial service in the Cathedral on August 28. The interment was in Lenox, where the Bishop had a summer home.
Bishop Davies, like his predecessor, participated very little in the activities of the General Church. In diocesan affairs he was a stimulating influence. The endowment fund of the Diocese was, in his twenty-five years, doubled. Twelve missions were founded, ten new mission churches were built and twelve churches consecrated. The considerable communicant increase was largely in the first ten years. To further the work of Bishop and Archdeacon, an arrange ment was made with the Cathedral parish, whereby a former rectory, next to the church, was converted into offices, upstairs for the Diocese and downstairs for the parish.
Bishop Davies was a genial and capable diocesan leader. His clergy always found him kindly and considerate. He was, while his health lasted, an inspiring preacher of carefully prepared sermons, written in beautiful English and beautifully rendered. Several of his brief writings have been published. Among them are: "Priestly Potentialities," "Personal Progress in Religion," "The Charm of Trees," and "After Confirmation, What ?"
At this point, we might mention three clergymen of the Diocese in special charge of the missionary work. The first, already men- tioned, was Bishop Johnson of South Dakota, later of Missouri, who was called away from the Diocese in 1904. The second was the Rev. Charles J. Sniffen, who succeeded him as diocesan missionary and later as Archdeacon. Mr. Sniffen was greatly beloved in the Diocese
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and in its missions. In 1920, Archdeacon Mott began his seventeen- year career as the Bishop's right hand. After the next election, he retired at a ripe age, having served the Diocese for forty-three years. He was sent as delegate to no less than six General Conventions.
Bishops Davies' sudden death made it necessary to send out a legal call to elect a Diocesan instead of a Coadjutor. So the Stand- ing Committee postponed the election to October 21. A full comple- ment of clergy, 51 out of 53, and 115 lay delegates, now voting individually, attended the special Convention.
Four men from outside the Diocese and four rectors of the larger parishes were duly nominated. Their total vote represented a little more than one-half of those cast in both Orders. The favored name was that of the Reverend Doctor William Appleton Lawrence, son of Bishop William Lawrence and rector of Grace Church, Providence, Rhode Island. He had a decisive majority on the second ballot in both the clerical and the lay Order.
At the Consecration on January 13, 1937, at the Cathedral, Bishop Lawrence, retired of Massachusetts, who had assisted in the two previous consecrations, was this time both Consecrator and Preacher. Even at eighty-seven, he appeared quite vigorous. It was a unique occasion for a Bishop, who had baptized, confirmed and ordained his son, to consecrate him to the episcopate of what had once been a part of his own Diocese. The Co-Consecrators were the Rt. Rev. James De Wolf Perry, Dr. Lawrence's Diocesan in Rhode Island, and Presiding Bishop, and Bishop Henry K. Sherrill of Massachusetts, later to be Presiding Bishop. Bishop John T. Dallas of New Hampshire, read the Epistle, and Bishop Benjamin Brewster of Maine the Gospel. Litanist was Bishop Philip Cook of Delaware. The Presenting Bishops were Samuel G. Babcock, Suff- ragan of Massachusetts, and Arthur W. Moulton, missionary Bishop of Utah, under whom Dr. Lawrence had served once as curate at Grace Church, Lawrence, Massachusetts. The attending Presbyters were Robert R. Carmichael, assistant at the new Bishop's parish in Providence, and his own brother Frederic C. Lawrence, now Suffra- gan in Massachusetts.
III.
William Appleton Lawrence was born in Cambridge, Massa- chusetts, on May 21, 1889. He was thus only four when his father moved from the deanship of the Cambridge Seminary to the See of Massachusetts. He was only thirteen when his future diocese was separated from the eastern part of the State. He graduated from Harvard in 1911, just as Bishop Davies was beginning his twenty- five year episcopate, and from E. T. S. in 1914, in the same class as
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two other future bishops, Henry Knox Sherrill and William Payne Roberts, retired Bishop of Shanghai. At the end of his first year in Seminary he married Miss Hannah Cobb. The Lawrences have had seven children, of whom Charles Kane Cobb Lawrence is a clergyman, while a daughter married in 1957 one of the Bishop's clergy, the Rev. Dale Lee Van Meter of Westboro.
Appleton Lawrence's first church office was a curacy at his father's old parish, Grace Church, Lawrence. After a couple of years he went in 1916 to the rectorship of the huge parish of St. Stephen's, Lynn, where he had a dynamic ministry, using numerous church organizations. After ten years, he was called to Grace Church, Providence. There he went in for a more pastoral ministry. At the end of his first year he had almost completed the round of the enor- mous parish, whose members are scattered over a dozen towns and cities. Administratively, he was successful in putting the financial burden of the parish upon the many, instead of the few, as had been the case for the previous century.
Bishop Lawrence commenced his episcopate on January 13, 1937. He found a diocese that was still not much more than semi- organized. He left it on Thanksgiving Day 1957 fully organized and vigorous in all departments of diocesan effort. Administrative skill and spiritual vitality, in their effects, flowed down from Bishop's House to the parishes.
The following statistical table gives a birdseye view of diocesan growth in those nigh twenty-one years.
Statistics of the Diocese of Western Massachusetts 1927 - 1957
1927
1937
1947
1957
Clergy
62
62
76
98
Parishes & Missions
90
84
64
68
Baptized Persons
29,657
28,173
30,339
36,255
Communicants
16,291
17,553
18,381
20,700
Baptisms
759
624
1,146
1,098
Confirmations
789
871
795
1,010
Contributions
$674,428
$574,117
$839,337
$1,703,499
Ordinations:
Deacons
2
0
2
11
Priests
2
2
3
10
Church School Youngsters
5667
5106
4986
8882
Two highly significant facts emerge from the above table. The clergy list increased, from 1937 to 1957, from 62 to 98, far out- running the increase in the Church as a whole. A major reason here was the extended and intensive work of the Diocese for Youth and in the half dozen collegiate institutions of the area. Recruits for the Ministry abounded ..
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A second fact is the enormous growth in contributions, some three fold, from the $574,177 of 1937 to the $1,703,499 of 1957. It is the financial increase that has made the Youth and College Work possible. A legacy of $2,000,000 from the estate of Miss Bement, a part-time resident of Stockbridge, has also been devoted in con- siderable measure to this kind of work, although not a little has gone into building developments here or there. As an instance, the Bement Fund bought back from the Lutherans the former Church of St. Peter's parish, Springfield, housing therein an integrated congregation, largely colored, known as St. Simon the Cyrenian. The Fund enabled the Diocese to withdraw the Rev. E. J. H. Nichols from his parish in East Springfield for exclusive attention to Youth work at Washington in the Berkshires and at Camp Bement in Charlton. A further use is aiding to finance the Adult Conferences at Lasell House in Whitinsville, where Miss Estelle Carver carries on her well-known Study and Devotional Groups for Adults. The Fund also helps to finance the College Work at Amherst College and the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, at South Hadley, where Mount Holyoke College is located, and at Northampton, the seat of Smith College.
Increase in the number of clergy, candidates, Church School Youngsters and in contributions are the outstanding feature of diocesan statistics in the Lawrence episcopate. Increase in baptized persons from 1937 to 1957 was a little over 20%, and the increase in communicants a little under 20%. This corresponds roughly to the growth in the much larger diocese centering around Boston. As in the Eastern Diocese, Episcopal growth has fallen behind population increase.
At the Diocesan Convention in May, 1957, Bishop Lawrence, then turning sixty-eight, announced his resignation of the Diocese as of the coming Thanksgiving Day. He felt that, inasmuch as the Diocese was now well organized, a younger man, with his own policy, should immediately take office as diocesan, rather than as coadjutor. Accordingly, an election was held in the early autumn. The Rt. Rev. Robert McConnell Hatch, suffragan bishop in Connecticut for six years, was soon chosen by a decisive majority, and took his new office at the beginning of 1958, under the fairest of auspices.
Bishop Hatch, born in Brooklyn, is the son of the Rev. W. H. P. Hatch, for many years New Testament professor at E. T. S. He graduated from Harvard in 1933 and from Cambridge in 1939. He served for two years as curate at Trinity Church, Boston, for four more as rector of St. John's Church, Arlington, Mass. After three years as Dean of the Cathedral in Wilmington, Delaware and three more as rector of St. John's Church, Waterbury, Connecticut, he was elected, at forty, as suffragan in that Diocese. He married, in
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1940, Miss Crocker Addison, a daughter of James Thayer Addison, long a professor at Cambridge, who had married into the well- known Crocker family of Fitchburg.
After his retirement, Bishop Lawrence moved to his native Cambridge, and in Lawrence Hall, the dormitory which his good father had built for E. T. S., he has an office to further proper place- ment of the clergy. The Bishop has been convinced from his own observation and experience that many a young man is advanced too fast in the church and that many a man is left in some corner, never has the opportunity to reach his church potential. So, with the help of a good-bye gift of $10,000 from the Diocese, he is laboring, with some evident success to improve the somewhat chaotic condition of clergy placement in the Episcopal Church. He has also been a strong background influence in the financial and other policies of the Cam- bridge Seminary. The new Dean there, the Rev. John B. Coburn, was once one of Bishop Lawrence's clergy (at Amherst), as was Bishop Donald J. Campbell (Springfield Cathedral), once suffragan bishop in Los Angeles and now director of the expansion program of the Cambridge Seminary, which is reaching massive proportions .*
When the full statistics of 1960, both of the census and of the Diocese are in, it will probably be the case that Episcopal growth has not here, as in the Boston diocese, kept pace with population increase. The reasons are much the same as those put forth in Chapter XI for the other Diocese.
* Washburn Hall, given by the Lay Trustees in honor of Dean Emeritus, Henry B. Washburn of E. T. S. was erected in 1960. It is the largest of the many buildings the Seminary now owns.
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INDEX
(A)
Addison, Rev. C. M. 56, 67
Addison, Rev. D. D.
30
Addison, Rev. J. T. 138
Albright, Rev. R. W. III
Aldrich, Rt. Rev. D. B. 76
Allen, Rev. A. V. G. 50, 71,
85
Allen, Rev. F. B. 96
Ames, Fisher 20
Amesbury, St. James
14, 35, 46
Amherst, Grace
49
Andover, Christ Church 37
Andrews, Rev. Samuel 24
Ann, Cape 4
Andros, Sir Edmond 6,
7
Apthorp, Rev. East 18
Archdeaconries 73, 76
Ashfield, St. John's
36, 48
Ashton, R. I.
3
Atkinson, Rev. E. L.
84
Atwill, Rt. Rev. D. H. 76
Atwood, Rt. Rev. J. W.
75
(B)
Babcock, Rt. Rev. S. G. 76, 78, 89
Bailey, Rev. Jacob 16
Barclay, Rev. Wm. 19
Barnard, Rev. John
17,
18
Bartlett, Rt. Rev. F. B.
73
Bass, Rt. Rev. Edward 32
Beal, Rt. Rev. H. B.
Beck, Sarah 28
Berry, Joseph B. III
Billings, Rev. Sherrard 56
Blackstone, Rev. Wm. 2
Blanchard, Rt. Rev. R. W.
74
Blandford
36
Bollan, Mr. Wm. 12
Boston and Albany R.R. 45
Boston Churches:
Advent 44, 46, 118
All Saints 118
Brattle St. Church 10, 33, 118
Christ, North End 37, 118
Christ, Hyde Park 118
Emmanuel, Newbury St.
39, 118
Emmanuel, Roxbury 118
Good Shepherd 118
Grace Federated, E. Boston 118
Grace, S. Boston 118
King's Chapel 6
Holy Spirit, Mattapan 118
Our Saviour, Roslindale 118
St. Ann's, Dorchester 118
St. Augustine and
St. Martin's 76, 118
St. Cyprian's
77, 118
St. James, Roxbury
32, 118
St. John the Evangelist
46, 118
St. John's, Charlestown 47, 118
St. John's, E. Boston 118
St. John's, Jamaica Plain 118
St. Luke's, Allston
118
St. Margaret's, Brighton 118
St. Mark's, Dorchester 118
St. Mary's for Sailors,
E. Boston 40, 118
St. Mary's, Dorchester 118
St. Matthew and Redeemer,
S. Boston 118
St. Peter's, Jamaica Plain 118
St. Stephen's 60, 118
Trinity
8, 12, 31, 58, 118
Boston Fire
54, 63
Boston Town Council 4,
6
Boston, Tea Party
21
Bostwick, Rev. Gideon
24, 25
Bours, Rev. Peter
18, 19
Bowie, Rev. W. R.
96
Bowen, Rt. Rev. Nathaniel 77
Bradford, Governor 3
Braintree, Emmanuel 20, 118
Brattle, Thomas
10
Bridge, Rev. Christopher 7
Bridgewater, Trinity .. 16, 21, 47, 121
Brent, Rt. Rev. Chas. H. 65, 76
Bristol, St. Michael's 28, 34, 35
Brockwell, Rev. Chas.
19, 35
Brown, John and Samuel 4
Bronson, Rev. Abraham 35
37
Brooks, Rev. Arthur
61
Brooks, Rev. Frederic
61
Brooks, Peter 55, 60
Brooks, Rev. Phillips 60, 70
Brooks, Wm. Gray
61
Burgess, Rt. Rev Geo. 40
Burgess, Rev. John M. 81
Burnham, Rev. Daniel
22
Burr. Dr. Nelson R.
III
Byles, Rev. Mather Jr.
12, 13
(C)
Cadigan, Rt. Rev. G. L. 74
Campbell, Rt. Rev. D. J. 76, 138
Cambridge, Ascension 120
St. Bartholomew's
80, 120
Christ Church 21, 37, 46. 120
St. James
46, 120
St. Peter's 47, 73, 120
St. Philip's
120
St. John's Chapel
47, 120
Cambridge Synod
4
Canton (Stoughton) Trinity
124
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Browne, Rev. Percy
Brooks, Rev. J. C.
61, 70
16, 29,
76
INDEX
Caner, Rev. Henry
11, 12, 22
Catholic Oak
3
Donegan, Rt. Rev. H. W. B. 77
4 Drown, Rev. E. S. 88
Drury, Rev. Samuel
79
Dudley, Gov. Joseph
6
Dudley, Gov. Thomas D.
15
Dun, Rt. Rev. Angus
76
(E)
Eager, Rev. Thomas 20
Eastburn, Rt. Rev. Manton 44-51
Eastern Diocese 34-50
Eliot, Charles W.
58
Emrich, Rt. Rev. R. S. M.
77
English, Rev. Philip
69
Episcopal Fund, W. Mass.
74, 134
Episcopal Giving 43
Episcopal Theological
School
72, 85, 138
Evangelicals, Old
40, 47, 50
Evangelicals, New
46, 80
(F)
Fall River, Ascension .. 39, 47, 100, 123
Faribault Cathedral
85-87
Ferguson, Rev. D. L. 81
Fisher, Rev. Nathaniel
19
Fitchburg, Christ
48
Fitchburg, Good Shepherd
48
Freeman, Rev. James
12
Frothingham, Rev. N. L.
61
(G)
Gardiner, Rev. S. J. S.
32
General Court of Mass.
4,
5
General Convention of 1789 29
Gibson, Rev. Richard 2
Gilbert, Raleigh
2
Gloucester, St. John's
Gorges, Fernando
13, 49, 122
2
Grace Church, New York
88
Great Barrington, St. James 23, 36, 48
Greaton, Rev. James
14
Greenfield, St. James
36
Greene Foundation
15, 44
Greer, Rt. Rev. D. H.
87, 128
Griswold, Rt. Rev. A. V.
34, 42
Groton School
56
(H)
Haight, Rev. B. I. 54
Hall, Rt. Rev. C. F. 77
Hall, Rt. Rev. A. C. A. .58, 65, 70
Hanover, St. Andrew's
36, 47, 124
Hare, Rt. Rev. W. H.
70
Harris, Rev. Henry
10
Harvard College
.58, 64
Hatch, Rt. Rev. R. M.
74, 137
Haverhill, Trinity
49, 126
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Charles, I
Charles, II
Charters, Royal 5
Channing, Rev. Wm. E. 46, 90
Chase, Rt. Rev. Carlton 35, 49
Chelsea, St. Luke's
37, 46, 120
Church Pension Fund
81
Church War Commission 81
Claggett, Rt. Rev. T. J. 29
Clark, Rt. Rev. T. M.
37, 65,
70
Clark, Rt. Rev. S. C. 75
Clarke, Rev. Joseph 6
Claremont, N. H.
28, 35
Clinton, Sir Henry
20
Clough, Rt. Rev. C. A.
77
Coburn, Rev. John B.
135
Codman, Rt. Rev. Robert
71, 77, 80
Colburn, Mr. Samuel
20
Colman, Dr.
10
Conant, Roger
4
Congregationalists
2, 4, 13, 64
Concordat with
Congregationalists 91
Connecticut Convention
29
Connecticut Statistics 37
Converse, Rev. G. S. 70
Cooper, Rev. Jacob G.
36
Cossit, Rev. Rana
28
Cotton, Rev. John
60
Courtney, Bishop of Novia Scotia .. 70
Cromwell, Oliver
4
Crowley, Rt. Rev. Archie 76
Cutler, Rev. Timothy 7, 13, 14
Cutler, Rev. Wolcott
34
(D)
Davenport, Rev. Addington
11, 15
Davies, Rev. Thomas 23
Danvers, Calvary 49
Davies, Rt. Rev. Thomas F.
(of Michigan) 130
Davies, Rt. Rev. Thomas F.
(W. Mass.)
128, 128, 132-5
Day, Rev. G. M. 107
Dedham, St. Paul's (Christ) 13, 20, 31, 46
Dedham, Good Shepherd
21
Dehon, Rt. Rev. Theodore
.31,
77
DeKoven, Rev. Jas.
54
DeWitt, Rt. Rev. Edgar L.
76
Diocesan Board' of Missions
78
Diocesan Director of Christian Education 78
Diocesan Church Service League 90
Diocesan House
52, 93
Diocesan Reinforcement Fund.
80
Doane, Rt. Rev. G. W.
39, 70
Doane, Rt. Rev. Wm. C.
58, 63
5
INDEX
Henshaw, Rt. Rev. J. P. K.
35, 40
Heron, Rt. Rev. R. A. 76, 107
Higginson, Rev. Francis 4
Hodges, Rev. George 87
Holliston, Redeemer
49
Holliston, St. Michael's
110
Hooper, Rev. William 15
Hopkins, Rt. Rev. J. H.
40, 51
Hopkins, Rev. Samuel 23
Hopkinton
10, 22, 38
Hoppin, Rev. Nicholas
35, 46
Howe, Rt. Rev. A. DeWolf
65, 77
Hughes, Rev. K.
81
Huntington, Rt. Rev. F. D. 46, 70
Huntington, Rev. W. R. 47, 88
Hyde Park, Christ
49
(I)
Ipswich, Ascension
37
(J)
Jarvis, Rt. Rev. Abraham 32
Jesset, Rev. T. G. III
Jordan, Rev. Robert
2
Johnson, Rt. Rev. F. F. 132
(K)
Kellner, Rev. Max 85
Kilgour, Rt. Rev. Robert 28
King's Chapel 5-11
Knight, Rt. Rev. Cyrus F. 78
(L)
Lambton, Chaplain 16
Lanesborough 24,
25
Larned, Rt. Rev. J. I. L. :6
Lawrence, Amos A. 72
Lawrence, Rt. Rev. F. C. 73
Lawrence, Rt. Rev. W. A.
135, 138
Lawrence, Rt. Rev. Wm. 69-82
Lawrence, Grace Church 44, 126
Lawrence, St. John's 126
Lawrence Hall 72
Lawrence, Sarah
90
Leaming, Rev. Joshua 28 Old North Church 11, 15
Lee, Rt. Rev. H. W. 77
Lee, Rt. Rev. Alfred 49
Lenox, Trinity
36, 48
Lewis, Rev. S. C.
21
Lichtenberger, Rt. Rev. A. C. 77
Lonsdale, R. I. 3
Loring, Rt. Rev. O. L. 77
Loring, Rev. R. T. 77
Loring, Rt. Rev. R. T. Jr. 77
Lowell, St. Ann's and St. John's 38. 128
Lyford, Rev. John 3, 4
Lynn, St. Stephen's 37, 49, 122
Lucas, Rev. Henry 16
Ludlow, Rt. Rev. T. R.
76
(M)
Maine 2, 9, 35, 40, 51
Maguire, Rev.
80
Malcolm, Rev. Alexander 18
Marblehead, St. Michael's 16-17, 37
46, 122
Marshfield, Trinity 16
McIlvaine, Rt. Rev. C. P. 49
McKim, Rt. Rev. John 72
13
Miller, Rev. Ebenezer 20, 21
Milford, Trinity
13, 48
Millville, St. John's
13, 48
Montagne, Rev. Wm.
15
Morrell, Rev. Wm.
2,
3
Mosshassuck River
3
Mossom, Rev. David
16, 17
Mott, Rev. M. E.
135
(N)
Nantasket 4
Narragansett County 3
Narragansett Church 7
Naide, Rt. Rev. J. 66
Nash, Rev. H. S.
57, 85
Nash, Rt. Rev. N. B. 102-8
Naumkeag 4
Neely, Rt. Rev. H. M. 63
New Bedford, Grace 36, 37
Newbury, Queen's Chapel 13
Newburyport, St. Paul's 30, 31
32, 41
New Hampshire 40
Newport, Trinity 28, 31
Newton, St. Mary's 39
Newton. Grace 44
Nichols, Rev. H. P.
86
(0)
Ogden, Rev. J. C. 12
Ogilby, Rt. Rev. L. C.
76
Oldham, John 4
Osborne, Rt. Rev. E. W. 78
Otis
36
(P)
Paddock, Rt. Rev. B. H. 54, 58
Page, Rt. Rev. H. E. 75
Page, Rt. Rev. H. R. 77
Palmer, Rev. Solomon 23
Parker, Rt. Rev. Samuel
28, 32
Parsons. Rt. Rev. E. L.
76, 94
Pawtucket, St. Paul's
40
Peabody, Rev. Endicott 76
Peabody, Rt. Rev. M. E.
76
Perry, Rt. Rev. Jas. DeWolf
76, 98
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INDEX
Perry, Rt. Rev. Wm. S. 77
Philip, King 2
Phillips, Mercy 30
Pigot, Rev. George
18
Pittsfield, St. Stephen's
48
Plante, Rev. Matthias 16, 17
Plymouth Colony 3
Pormost, Mr. Philemon 11
Portsmouth, N. H.
2
Potter, Rt. Rev. Henry C. 50, 83
Price, Rev. Roger
10, 11
Price Lectures
12
Prayer Book of 1928
Hymnal of 1940 92
Providence, R. I.
3, 26, 40
Provoost, Rt. Rev. Samuel 29
Punderson, Rev. Ebenezer 23
Puritan Theology
61
(Q)
Quakers
4
Quincy, Christ 6, 124
(R)
Randolph 6
Randolph, Rt. Rev. A. M. 70
Ratcliffe, Rev. Robert
5,
7
Rhode Island Convention of 1790 .. 29
Rowsmaniere, Rev. E. S.
81,
82
Rochdale
36
Roxbury, St. John's
118
(S)
Saco, Maine 2
Salem, St. Peter's .4, 15, 35, 46
Salem, Grace 46
Scituate, St. Andrew's (Hanover) 21
Seabury, Rt. Samuel
28, 29
Sargeant, Winood
21,
22
Sewell, Judge
6
Seymour, Rev. Richard 2
Shaw, Rev. M. 17
Skelton, Rev. Samuel 4
Smith, Rt. Rev. B. B.
49
Smith, Rev. J. C. 56
Smith, Richard
3
Somerville, Emmanuel, St.
Thomas, St. James, Christ 48, 120
Sprague, Rev. P. W. 47
St. John, Cathedral of. 3
Springfield, Christ
48
Steenstra, Rev. P. H.
85
Stockbridge, St. Paul's
48
Stokes, Rt. Rev. A. J. Jr.
107-14
Stone, Rev. J. S.
35, 55
Stoughton, Trinity 11
Sudbury, St. Elizabeth 11
Study Hill
3
Suter, John W.
57
Suter, John W. Jr. 57
(T)
Talbot, Rev. John
17
Talbot, Rt. Rev. E. S. 65
Taunton, St. Thomas 16, 47, 125
Taunton, St. John's
47, 125
Theological Currents in New England 40
Thompson, Rev. Ebenezer
21
Thurston, Rt. Rev. T. P.
75,
83
Touret, Rt. Rev. F. H.
75
Tucker, Rt. Rev. Beverly. 89
Tucker, Rt. Rev. H. St. George 72
Tyng, Rev. S. H.
35, 49
Tyng, Rev. T. S. 56
(U)
Unitarianism
14, 46, 90
Usher, Rev. John
28
(V)
Van Deusenville
36
Vassall, Samuel 12
Vermont
40
Vesey, Rev. Wm.
20
Vinton, Rev. Alexander H ... 37, 54, 62
Vinton, Rt. Rev. Alexander H ..... 130-2
(W)
Walker, Rev. James
61, 62
Walter, Rev. Wm. 15
Washburn, Rev. H. B. 138
Washington, George 22
West Newbury, All Saints
17
Weymouth, Mass.
2
Whipple, Rt. Rev. H. B. 86
White, Rt. Rev. Wm. 29
Whitefield 14
Wilkinsonville, St. John's. 36
Williams, Rt. Rev. John 65
Winslow, Edward
4
Winthrop, Governor
60
Woburn, Trinity 122
Woodman, Rev. E. R. 56
Worcester, All Saints
47, 48
Worcester, St. Michael's
47
(Y)
Young, Rt. Rev. J. F.
77
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