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1962 From an anonymous gift was purchased 150 new Prayer Books and 150 new Hymnals for the Church, as a memorial to William Miller Sperrv.
1962 A silver and ebony Verge, wrought with the arms of St. James' Parish, designed and made by J. Wippell & Co., Ltd. of Exeter and London, in memory of William Miller Sperry.
1962 A pair of silver and ebony Churchwarden Staves embodving the scallop shell that is the emblem of St. James the Great, designed and made by J. Wippell & Co. Ltd. of Exeter and London. Given anonymously.
1962 A heavy-weight silver, hand-made reproduction of the York Minster Chalice, six inches high, and paten to match, made by The Warham Guild, Ltd. of London. Given by Mrs. Montgomery S. Crane in memory of Virginia Moore Kimbro.
1962 Additional carpet for the side aisles of the Church and a pair of handled, fluted urns (Sheffield) circa 1825, bearing the crest of Baron, for use as flower vases on the altar. Anonymous gifts.
1962 An oriental rug for the Sacristy. A gift of Mrs. Frederick Adams.
Stained Glass Windows in St. James' Church
In Chancel, over the Altar
Three paneled, representing the Ascension of Christ, based on Acts I: 9-10. Central panel in memory of the Rev. Daniel Goodwin Anderson, erected by his congregation in 1887-8. Made bv Charles F. Hogeman of Orange, N. J., American Associate of Charles Booth of London. The two side panels, completing the scene, were given in 1924 by Albert A. Winant in memory of his parents.
Gospel side, from Chancel toward the Narthex.
1. Site occupied by door to parish house.
2 Presentation of Christ in the temple, based on St. Luke 2: 22-32. "In memory of Loring Griswold Robbins, for twenty years Senior Warden of St. James' Church; born April 30, 1797, died April 20, 1886; and of Zady Tobey Robbins, born January 21, 1802, died August 25, 1873."
3. The wise and foolish virgins, based on St. Matthew 25:1-13. "To the Glory of God and in loving memory of Lucy Dodge Peters, born 2nd December 1850, died 29th October 1909, her husband George Willis Peters and children have caused this window to be erected 1911."
4. The Magi present Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh to the Christ Child, based on St. Mathew 2:10-11. "To the Glory of God and in loving memory of Adelaide Cooper French, born 23rd January 1847, died 17th October 1918."
5. The Blessed Virgin Mary and the Christ Child, surrounded by decorative border of symbolic shields suggested by the Canticle of Canticles. "This window has been erected A.D. 1925 to the Glory of God and in loving memory of S. Belle Wetherbee and her daugh- ter Lilah."
Epistle side, from Chancel toward the Narthex.
1. Our Lord, seated, hands spread on either side. accompanied by text: "Thou openest thine hand and fillest all things living with plenteousness: Psalm 145, verse 16."
"In memory of Isaac Smithson Hartley, D.D., Rector of this church November 1891 - July 1899. Born 1830, died 1899."
2. Angel and Child bearing a lily. "Entered into Paradise: Philip Ensign - Frank Kingsley - Children of Frederick N. and Elizabeth E. Deland."
'Lord, Thou has let thy little ones depart in peace. Into thy hands, O God, we commend their spirits for Thou hast redeemed them, O Lord, Thou God of Truth.
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"O Jesus, Thou hast bidden them come to Thee; Thou hast opened to them the gate of Glory.
"Thou hast given them an inheritance with Thy saints in light. "Thou hast placed them in the habitation of joy and goodness. There they live with Thy holy Angels in all blessedness for ever and ever. Amen."
3. The Risen Lord appearing to Mary Magdalene. "In memoriam, Merret Seeley, died April 8, 1886.
Text: RABBONI, based on St. John 20: 11-16. "I have full faith in the Mercy of God and of His Son Jesus Christ and daily pray for forgiveness that my soul may be saved."
"Elizabeth Seeley, died September 1878.
Julia E. Seeley departed this life January 11, 1887, in the commun- ion of the Holy Catholic Church."
4. Angel proclaiming the birth of Christ. Text based on St. Luke 2:11: "Unto you this day is born a Saviour." Revd. Sturges Gilbert, born 1781, died 1847, Rector of St. James' Church from 1827 to 1840."
5. Christ as the Good Sheperd, based on St. John 10:14. "In memo- riam - Charles Pratt Hulbert. (C. Owen Bonawit. New York 1926)"
PRIESTS AND RECTORS OF ST. JAMES' PARISH
Solomon Palmer
1760
Thomas Davies
1762
1767 1766
Ebenezer Punderson
1762
Roger Viets
1763
1766
Richard Mansfield
Prior to 1770
1. Gideon Bostwick
Daniel Burhans
David B. Lynson
1793
1795
Caleb Child
1799
1801
Jasper D. Jones Bethel Judd
August 30, 1801
1805
Abraham Brunson
1802
Tilotson Brunson
1802
2. Samuel Griswold
April 30, 1804
September 18, 1820
George T. Chapman
1819
1820
3. Solomon Blakeslee
September 28, 1821
July 15, 1827
4. Sturges Gilbert
September 1828
1839
5. Samuel Hassard
April 21, 1839
January 13, 1847d
6. Samuel Dexter Denison
April 4. 1847
November 15, 1849
Justin E. Field
January 20, 1850
July 19, 1851
7. John F. Woart
October 19, 1851 July 1. 1854
October 29, 1854
William Wood Seymour
December 25, 1854
November 1, 1855
8. George Lewis Platt
January 1, 1856
June 30, 1858
9. Charles A. L. Richards
September 4, 1858
September 16, 1861 September 1, 1864
10. John T. Huntington Robert Weeks
January 1, 1864
July 1, 1864
11. John H. Rogers
April 30, 1865
February 15, 1866
12. Jolin C. Eccleston
April 12. 1866
December 31, 1866
13. Henry Olmstead
September 1, 1867
October 1, 1872
Jesse A. Penniman
1870
14. Orlando F. Starkey
January 19, 1873
March 28, 1875
Charles T. B. Tremaine
April 4, 1875
January 25, 1876
15. Daniel Goodwin Anderson
February 14, 1876 May 15, 1882₫
16. Joseph E. Lindholm
August 1, 1882
January 29, 1885
17. Henry A. Adams
April 4, 1885 May 1, 1886
18. Theodore B. Foster
June 25, 1886
September 1, 1891
June 4, 1770 June 13, 1793d
Ezra Bradley
1801
April 5, 1854
Francis Byrne
December 24, 1861
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19. Isaac Smithson Hartley Harry I. Bodley Smith Delancey Townsend
February 1, 1892 1899
July 3, 1899₫ 1899
January
April
September
1899
20. Howard Murray Dumbell
January 1, 1900 . March 27, 1910
21. Joseph Russell Lynes
June
1, 1910
August 1, 1919
22. Robert Bachman, Jr. Edward Clarke Bradley
March
1, 1922
April 16, 1922
23. Edward C. M. Tower William E. Soule Emery Glaeser William G. Thompson Edward K. Thurlow
April 30, 1922
October 1, 1944
1925 1925
Franklin Knight
1938
24. Richard Mortimer-Maddox Robert R. Carmichael
November 7, 1944
September 6, 1960
September 13, 1960
December 25, 1960
25. Arthur Pierce Middleton
January 1. 1961
d-Died in office.
Un-numbered: Temporary supply priest.
BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES OF THE CLERGY OF ST. JAMES' CHURCH
Henry Austin Adams, who served St. James' in 1885-6, served also in Wethersfield (Conn.), Albany, Buffalo and New York City.
Daniel Goodwin Anderson, born May 9, 1840 in Sutton, Mass., attended Leicester Academy and Kenyon College. In the Civil War he par- ticipated in the siege of Vicksburg with the 96th Ohio Regiment, and after Lincoln's assassination he guarded the Old Capitol Prison in Washington from a mob. He attended the Philadelphia Divinity School and was or- dained deacon and priest by the Bishop of Delaware. He served parishes at Ashton, Cranston (both in Rhode Island) and Troy before coming to St. James' in 1876. He died here in 1882 and was buried locally.
Robert Bachman Jr. was born in 1877 at Utica, N. Y., and attended Hotchkiss School and Princeton University. His father was a Presbyterian minister and be prepared for that ministry at the Union Theological Semi- inary, but abandoning his intention to be ordained, engaged in settlement work in New York for eight years. He conformed to the Episcopal Church, prepared for orders and was ordained to a curacy in Grace Church, New York, in 1912. In 1914 he became assistant to Bishop Courtney at St. James' Church, New York, and upon the Bishop's resignation, priest-in-charge for a year. In 1916 he went to St. Paul's Church in Portsmouth, R. I., and to St. James', Great Barrington, in 1920. He died here in 1921.
Solomon Blakeslee was ordained priest June 3, 1789 by Bishop Samuel Seabury. He served here from 1821 to 1827 and also at New Lon- don (Conn.). He died April 10, 1835.
Harry I. Bodley, born in 1853, served St. Mark's at New Britain, Conn., for fifty years. He supplied at St. James' in 1899 while rector at North Adams, and died February 20, 1928.
Gideon Bostwick was born in 1742 at New Milford, Conn., grad- uated from Yale College in 1762 and came to Great Barrington to take charge of a school. Originally a Congregationalist, he became an Anglican in college and within two years after coming here he was a Lay Reader at Christ Church. He held services also at Lanesborough, Nobletown and New Concord; those congregations in cooperation with that at Great Bar- rington, sent Bostwick to England to study for the priesthood; on February
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July
1899
January
1, 1920
November 28, 1921₫
September 1. 1929
1927 August 31, 1930
24, 1770, he was ordained to the diaconate and on March 11 to the priest- hood, both events occurring in the Chapel of St. James' Palace, London, Bishop Richard Terrick conferring Holy Orders. In June he assumed his position in Great Barrington as Christ Church's first rector, and in the serv- ice of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, per- formed missionary work in forty-seven communities in adjacent areas of Massachusetts, New York, Vermont and Connecticut. He sponsored Daniel Burhans' candidacy for Holy Orders and while returning from the latter's ordination in Middletown, Conn., died in New Milford on June 13, 1793. He was buried in the Mahaiwe Cemetery, Great Barrington.
Edward Clarke Bradley attended Harvard University and obtained the M.A. degree at Butler University in 1914, after ordinations in 1906 and 1907. He served in Indianapolis, and at St. Stephen's, Pittsfield and Trinity, Lenox. He supplied at St. James' in 1922.
Ezra Bradley was ordained deacon by Bishop Jarvis, September 30, 1798, at Cheshire, Conn., but was rejected for the priesthood by the Con- vocation in 1804. He supplied at Christ Church in 1799-1801.
Abraham Brunson was ordained priest December 25, 1799, and in addition to supplying at Christ Church in 1802, served in Vermont and Ohio. He died June 12, 1853.
Tilotson Brunson supplied Christ Church in 1802. He was ordained in Connecticut on September 22, 1786 and died in 1826.
Daniel Burhans was born July 7, 1763, at Sherman, Conn. He served as Lay Reader in Lanesborough under Gideon Bostwick and in 1791 began to read Systematic Divinity. He was ordained deacon and priest in 1793-4. He continued as missionary in Lanesborough and the adjacent area for six years, and with other priests, supplied at Christ Church. Subsequently he served in Newtown, Conn., and Poughkeepsie, N. Y., where he died De- cember 30, 1853. He took his degree of D.D. at Trinity College in 1831.
Francis Bryne was engaged to serve at St. James' in 1854 but was invited to resign the same year, so was not instituted Rector.
Robert R. Carmichael was born January 18, 1892 at Worcester, and received his B.A. degree from Clark College in 1912. He attended Harvard and the Episcopal Theological Seminary, graduating in 1915, and served in Blackinton, Clinton and Worcester in Massachusetts, Providence, R. I., and was made Honorary Canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Springfield, in 1950. Although retired, he supplied at St. James' in the fall of 1960.
George T. Chapman, born September 21, 1786, in Devonshire, Eng- land, came to the United States in 1795. He was ordained by Bishop Gris- wold in 1818, and supplied at St. James' and churches in Lenox and Lanes- borough in 1819-20. He held rectorates in Kentucky, Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire and New Jersey. He organized several churches, and the Diocese of Kentucky. He received his D.D. at Transylvania Uni- versity, and died October 18, 1872.
Caleb Child was admitted to the diaconate on June 7, 1795 by Bishop Seabury, but was rejected for the priesthood in 1801, being charged with immoralities as well as with "doctrinal errors". He supplied at Christ Church as Deacon in the middle 1790's.
Thomas Davies was born December 21, 1736, in Hertfordshire, England, and came to America in 1745. He graduated from Yale in 1758
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SUNDAY MORNING AT ST. JAMES' CHURCH
The Junior Warden (Dr. Hartwell Homer) is seen greeting the parishioners with a cheery smile.
and was ordained priest in England on August 23, 1761. On September 18, 1761, he was appointed by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, missionary to churches in Connecticut, and on September 21, 1762, he organized the Church of England in Great Barrington. He preached the first service in the new Christ Church there on December 25, 1764. In Connecticut he served parishes in New Milford, Roxbury, Sharon, New Preston, New Fairfield and Litchfield, and died in New Milford May 12, 1766.
Samuel Dexter Denison was born October 3, 1810, in Boston and ordained priest May 28, 1845 after attending Trinity College. He served at St. James' from 1847 to 1849, and in Texas. In 1853 he was elected Secretary and General Agent of the Foreign Committee of the Board of Missions and so continued until his death September 3, 1880.
Howard Murray Dumbell was graduated from the University of the South in 1888 and from Seminary in 1890. In addition to his rectorship at St. James' from 1900 to 1910, he served parishes in New York, Tennessee, Massachusetts, Florida and Connecticut. He was Dean of St. Mary's Cathe- dral in Memphis from 1893-5, and died some time in the middle twenties.
John Clarkson Eccleston was graduated from St. Mary's Roman Catholic College with an A.B. in 1847 and an M.A. in 1849, attended Rut- gers in 1850 and received his D.D. degree in 1864; he was graduated from the General Theological Seminary in 1854, and ordained deacon then and priest in 1855, by Bishop Alonzo Potter. Other than his short rectorate at St. James' in 1866, he served in New Jersey and on Staten Island, where he was made Rector Emeritus of St. John's, Clifton, in 1898. He died be- tween 1905 and 1910.
Justin E. Field was ordained priest by Bishop Griswold, January 6, 1842, and served Trinity Church in Lenox, Mass., for 23 years. Although engaged by St. James' in 1854, he was invited to resign that same year and was not instituted rector. He died March 6, 1893.
Theodore B. Foster was born in New York City in 1858, and was graduated from Columbia University in 1879. He was priested in 1883 and served churches in New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Missouri and Illinois, and served at St. James' from 1886 to 1891. He was a professor at Western Theological Seminary from 1913 to 1929 and died July 28, 1935.
Sturges Gilbert was ordained priest December 18, 1808, and was rector at St. James' from 1828 to 1839. During part of that time he and his wife conducted a boarding school for boys and girls at their home. He died September 3, 1847, after serving also in Connecticut and New York.
Emery Glaeser briefly supplied at St. James' in 1925 during the rector's absence on a trip.
Samuel Griswold was ordained priest by Bishop Jarvis, November 7, 1803, and in 1804 became the second rector at St. James'. His incum- bency of sixteen years was terminated by a bitter quarrel, in 1820, and he died in that decade. He was a brother of Bishop Griswold.
Isaac Smithson Hartley, born about 1831 in New York, attended New York University, and the Union and Andover Theological Seminaries; he received the D.D. degree in 1874 from Rutgers University. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1891 by Bishop H. C. Potter and served St. James' from 1892, dying in office on July 3, 1899. He was buried in Great
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Barrington. He was the author of several books on theological and historical subjects.
Samuel Hassard, born on the island of Jamaica, January 21, 1806, was graduated from Yale in 1826. He was ordained priest June 17, 1835, and served at Taunton, Mass., prior to his rectorate of St. James', from 1839 to 1847. He died in office on January 13 of that year and was buried in Great Barrington.
John T. Huntington was graduated with B.A. degree from Trinity College in 1850 and received his M.A. in 1853. After graduating from the General Theological Seminary in 1853, he was ordained deacon by Bishop Brownell that year and priest by Bishop Potter in 1854. He received the D.D. degree in 1911. He served in New Haven prior to coming to St. James' from 1861 to 1864 and was Professor of Greek at Trinity College, 1864- 1878. He died about 1919.
Jasper D. Jones supplied at Christ Church in 1801.
Bethel Judd was born at Watertown, Conn., in May 1776, and was graduated from Yale in 1797. He was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Jarvis of Connecticut, September 30, 1798. After serving two years in Con- necticut he moved to Hudson, N. Y., and it was during this interval, from 1801 to 1805, that he supplied at Christ Church in Great Barrington. He helped organize the Diocesan Missionary Society in Connecticut, was pro- posed for bishop but declined to submit his name because of unpopularity as a "moderate Calvinist". In 1808 he became Principal of St. John's Col- lege in Maryland, received his doctorate from Trinity College in 1831 and was Principal of Cheshire Academy from 1832 to 1835. After that he held many parishes outside Connecticut but died April 18, 1858, in Wilmington, Del. While he was supply priest in Great Barrington the parish's name was changed to St. James'.
Franklin Knight was graduated in engineering from the Massachu- setts Institute of Technology, but changed to the ministry. He was rector of churches in Holyoke and Dalton, and retired to live in Great Barrington, where he supplied at St. James' in 1938 during the absence of the rector on a trip.
Joseph E. Lindholm was ordained in 1867 and 1868 by Bishop Whipple and served in New York, Rhode Island and Connecticut. He was Rector of St. James' from 1882 to 1885 and died March 14, 1910.
Joseph Russell Lynes was born ca. 1878 in Norwalk, Conn., and attended the Select School, Trinity School and Newton Academy. He received a B.A. degree from Lafayette College and the Bachelor of Laws degree from New York Law School and then attended the General Theo- logical Seminary. He received his doctorate from Lafayette College in 1921. He was ordained in 1909 and 1910. He held a curacy in New Jersey during his diaconate and came to St. James' upon attaining the priesthood in 1910. In Great Barrington he participated in civic affairs and in the war effort; drawing upon prior experience in New York's Seventh Regiment, he or- ganized a local company of the State Guard, trained it, and later was com- missioned a major in the regiment which included the local group. He was a member of the local committee on public safety, and a member of the Wyantenuck Country Club. He was instrumental in the building of the Parish House, which was designed in accordance with his ideas. After
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leaving in 1919 he served in parishes in New Jersey, where he died De- cember 2, 1932.
David B. Lynson possibly was a Lay Reader, since the scant re- ferences to him give the impression that he had not received Holy Orders, and the official records do not mention him. He served at Christ Church intermittently from 1793 to 1795.
Richard Mansfield, born in New Haven in 1724, was graduated from Yale in 1741, and took priest's orders in England, August 7, 1748. He was awarded a D.D. degree by Yale in 1792. He was Rector' of Derby, Conn., when he supplied at Christ Church prior to 1770. Died 1820.
Arthur Pierce Middleton, born in Maryland in 1916, received an M.A. in mediaeval history and prehistoric archaeology at the University of Edinburgh, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in early American History at Harvard. He served as a Fellow and later a Research Associate of Colonial Williams- burg for 14 years, the last six as Director of Research. He was a lecturer in Colonial History at William and Mary College and Research Associate of the Institute of Early American History and Culture. During the war he served 3% years in the Coast Guard. Becoming active after the war as a lay reader, he took deacon's orders in 1949 and was ordained to the priest- hood in 1951 by the Bishop of Southern Virginia in Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg. Concurrently with his academic work, he was for six years Vicar, then Rector, of Blisland Parish, James City County, Va., and since 1954 was Rector of St. Paul's Parish, Brookfield, Conn. He came to St. James' on January 1, 1961 and was instituted rector by Bishop Hatch on January 17. Dr. Middleton is the author of Tobacco Coast, Henry St. George Tucker, and of many articles on church, Colonial and maritime history.
Richard Mortimer-Maddox was born November 21, 1900, in Bury, England, and graduated from the Royal College of Science, London Uni- versity and Egerton Hall Theological College. During World War I he served in the Royal Tank Corps and in 1927 was ordained priest at Black- burn Cathedral, England. In 1929 Mr. Mortimer-Maddox came to America and took summer duty at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York. Later he was assistant at St. John's Cathedral, Providence, R. I. From 1931 to 1944 he was Rector of St. John's in Barrington, R. I., and in No- vember of 1944 he came to St. James'. Here he served almost sixteen years, resigning in September, 1960, to devote his future to writing, counseling and preaching. (President of Rotary Club, 1947-8.)
Henry Olmstead was priested in 1844, and served at St. James' from 1867 to 1872. From here he went to Connecticut.
Solomon Palmer was graduated from Yale in 1729 and was a Con- gregational minister for 13 years. In 1754 he took Anglican Orders in Eng- land and became a missionary for the Propagation Society, with head- quarters in Litchfield, Conn. He is believed to have been the first Anglican priest to hold services in Great Barrington, during the interval 1760-1762, and he returned here intermittently after Christ Church was organized, as late as 1767. He died in 1771.
Jesse A. Penniman was ordered a priest by Bishop Eastburn, June 29, 1856, and in addition to supplying at St. James' briefly, apparently in
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1870, served churches in Lenox, Van Deusenville, and in Summit, N. J. He was deposed in 1873.
George Lewis Platt was born ca. 1819 in Connecticut and graduated from Hobart College in 1841 with B.A. and S.T.D. degrees. Ordained to the priesthood on April 11, 1848, he served parishes in New York, Penn- sylvania and in Great Barrington from 1856 to 1858. He died January 25, 1900.
Ebenezer Punderson was a native of New Haven and graduated from Yale in 1726. He was ordained a Congregational minister at the age of 21 at North Groton, Conn. He subsequently received Holy Orders in Eng- land in 1734, and became a missionary of the Propagation Society. He had services in Great Barrington in 1762. He died in 1771 at 63 years of age.
Charles A. L. Richards received his B.A. degree from Yale in 1849 and an M.D. from Jefferson Medical College in 1852. He was ordered dea- con in 1858 by Bishop Meade and priest in 1859 by Bishop Eastburn. He served at St. James' from 1858 to 1861, from which it appears that he may have been priested here, although the church records do not say so. He subsequently served in Philadelphia, Columbus and Providence, and in Rhode Island was a member of the Standing Committee, and a represen- tative to the General Convention. He was made Rector Emeritus of St. John's Church, Providence, in 1902, and died about 1915.
John H. Rogers served at St. James' for less than a year in 1865 and 1866, and although instituted Rector, moved away very shortly.
William Wood Seymour was ordained priest January 30, 1850. He served St. James' for less than a year in 1854-1855, and died in New York City on January 5, 1874 at 49 years.
William E. Soule who supplied at St. James' in 1925 during the ab- sence of the Rector, is an organist as well as priest. He served in various parishes in Massachusetts and Connecticut, and was a master at Wilbraham Academy, 1923-26.
Orlando F. Starkey was born in New Lisbon, New York, on Febru- ary 14, 1825, and graduated from Union College in 1943. He was ordained priest July 16, 1846, and served parishes in Lockport, Buffalo and Niagara Falls. He was at St. James' from 1873 to 1875, and went then to Mystic, Conn., where he died on January 31, 1886.
William G. Thompson supplied at St. James' in 1927 during the absence of the Rector in travel.
Edward K. Thurlow was born in West Newbury, Mass., and was a missionary to China from 1912 to 1917. He assisted at St. John's, Williams- town, from 1921 to 1923, was Rector of Christ Church, Sheffield, from 1923 to 1952, and of All Saints' in West Newbury from 1952 to 1956, where he died in retirement, March 11, 1961. During the illness and leave of absence of the Rector, he served as supply priest at St. James' from September 1, 1929, to August 31, 1930.
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