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Saviour Jesus Christ, with His Apostles, instituted and established the Church as a visible Society upon earth, in which all His disciples should live together in one body. The Church is surely just as much a "Divine Institution" now as it was under the Jewish Dispensation. The Church is as much a "Divine Gift" as the Bible itself is.
I am a Churchman because I love and pray for unity, for I read in the Bible many plain precepts and earnest exhorta- tions concerning the duty of Christian Unity, and many strong condemnations of division and separation.
I am a Churchman because I dare not sanction and countenance the modern principle that any number of men who please may join themselves in a new religious society, and originate a new brotherhood independently of the Church of the Living God, and then call that new, self-made Society or Brotherhood a new branch of the Church of Christ. This appears to me to be quite destructive of all order, rule or discipline. Where in the New Testament is there to be found the slightest authority for this principle-to forsake the Church already established by divine authority and to originate a new society instead ? This surely is to put a human invention in lieu of Divine institu- tion; a human sect in the place of the Church purchased with His own blood. Where do we ever read in any part of the New Testament of more than one Church in any place ?
I am a Churchman, because I find in the Acts, and in the epistles to St. Timothy and St. Titus, the apostolic institution of the three orders in the ministry of the Church, and because this form of ecclesias- tical government has been preserved in the Church alone. There is no trace or hint of any other method for preserving a con- tinual succession of ministers to be found in the New Testament. This continual succession of ministers having been kept in the Church, by this divinely appointed method from the days of the Apostles to the present day, I feel myself strongly
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bound to regard as truly binding the Sacred Authority of the Episcopal form of Church government. For fifteen hun- dred years after the Apostles there was no pretence of the existence of any Church without Bishops, who thus derived their spiritual authority from the Master through the Apostles. The other forms of Church government have all been invented by this or that man in very modern times, and are entirely without any warrant from Holy Writ.
I am a Churchman because I wish to be guided by the Bible, and the Bible tells us very distinctly that the Church is the Pillar and Ground of truth (1 Tim. 3: 15.) If I should leave the Church to which of the many sects should I go for the Truth ? One teaches one doctrine and another teaches contrary. In every different sect I hear a different doctrine, each sect interprets the Bible' according to the private judgment of its own particular "founder." What truth of the Bible is there that is not contradicted by some one of the hundred and more sects by which we are surrounded. What grievous and dangerous misunderstanding of the Bible there is among the sects. What partial views of the Truth. What a fearful ignorance of the doctrine of the Holy Sacraments. To which of them shall I go for the Truth ? Must I not rather follow the express direction of the Bible, and believe that the Church is the Pillar and Ground of the Truth ? Has not God given us the Bible ? Surely I have no more right to reject the Church than I have to reject the Bible. For without Church, without Bible.
I am a Churchman because if I were to leave the Church I should leave all sure and certain Sacraments, and this I dare not think of doing, because the Bible teaches me that the Holy Sacraments of Christ are means of grace for my salvation. The persons who administer the Holy Sacraments among the sectarians have never received the least real or lawful
authority to do so, they take upon them- selves to do so, or by a pretended ordina- tion they think they give the power of doing so to another.
Lastly, I am a Churchman because whatever faults there may be in the Church, I am not thereby justified in forsaking the Church. Many imperfections and abuses will always be found in everything that is administered by such weak and im- perfect agents as men are. In which one, indeed, of all the various sects themselves are there not many serious imperfections and manifest evils arising from this very cause ?
In the foregoing reasons for being a Churchman I am not presuming to sit in judgment on those who may be hindered from being convinced by these reasons, through inveterate prejudice or through want of proper instruction. The question is not what loss others may suffer, that is not for me to judge; but for myself, I am firmly convinced that I should endanger my salvation if I were to forsake the Church and join myself instead to one of the human sects around. Nor do I think it any want of charity to endeavor to show my neighbors the truth on this point. However bigoted they may fancy me to be, or however much I may displease them at first by telling them that their mistakes on this matter are very serious, for this I do in sincere love towards them. I do not overlook, or undervalue the good which there is among the sects. I greatly admire, love and reverence many of them for many good qualities in which they far excel many Churchpeople, but all this does not prove to me that they are right in the matter of Church membership. The very good points which they possess only make me more desirous to serve their best interest by showing them how entirely un- scriptural their present position is in regard to the Church purchased by the Blood of the Living Goo.
Adams, N. Y. JOHN LARCOMBE.
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OBITUARY.
Died, in Guilford, September 16, 1906, Mrs. Amanda Merchant, aged 96 year, 5 months and 17 days.
Mrs. Merchant suffered long and severely, but with remarkable fortitude and patience, from neuralgia, being con- fined to her bed for most of the time dur- ing the past 14 or 15 years. Her first husband was the Rev. Seth S. Rogers, who died at the age of 37 years while Rector of the Church in Guilford, with whom she had two children, Samuel and Ellen. Her second husband was Orrin G. Merchant, with whom she had three children, Ossian and Marco, and Lucia, now Mrs. George H. Baldwin of Norwich.
In her death one of the few visible links connecting the early history of the Church in America with the present has been severed, for when a young girl she walked several miles to attend a service by the Venerable Bishop White, of whom she always retained a very pleasant remem- brance, often repeating the text of his ser- mon, which was the 21st verse of the 23rd chapter of Job, "Acquaint now thyself with him and be at peace, thereby good shall come unto thee."
Although living to such an advanced age, she retained most of her faculties un- impaired, and was cheerful and hopeful to the end. She was a devoted and loyal Church member, and most highly esteemed by all who knew her.
It is with much regret that we record the death of Mrs. Grant, wife of the Rev. Alex. II. Grant, Rector of Zion Church, Fulton. We have not received the par- ticulars of her illness, but she passed away on Monday, September 24th, and her funeral took place on the Wednesday fol- lowing. Mrs. Grant was a young woman, of great attractiveness of manner and sweetness of disposition, useful in the work of the Church, and beloved by many friends. We extend our sympathy to her afflicted husband and family.
COURTESY .- "My boy," said a father to his son, "treat everybody with polite- ness, even those who are rude to you; for remember that you show courtesy to others not because they are gentlemen, but because you are one." No boy is more thoroughly mistaken than the one who thinks that he may be dis- courteous to his mother and sisters and still be manly. A blustering, independent disregard of others shows no kind of superiority. Gentle courtesy, which is but kindly thought for others, is always ex- pected from strength, and a manly boy never fails to show it .- S. S. Times.
The Rector will be glad to respond to calls upon his services in cases of sickness or death, but he does not feel that he has been negligent of his duty when the family fail to notify him. There seems to be a feeling very widespread that a clergyman has some mysterious way of discovering the cases of sickness in his parish, and that when he does not call soon after some mem- ber of the family has been taken sick, it is because of some disinclination to go to that house. It is surprising how fre- quently members of a parish feel "hurt" because the clergyman has not been there, though, it is true, the physician did not come until summoned, the nurse had to be sent for, and relatives had to be wired, but the clergyman hears of it casually as he makes his round of visits, or some member of the parish, knowing the customary care- lessness, telephones him, and then he visits the house of the sick, and the family think he is very slow in coming. As a matter of fact, it is grave discourtesy for a member of a family to be seriously ill and the clergyman not notified. Personally I want to say that not one of my pastoral duties is nearer my heart than to be with the members of our parish in times of trouble, of sickness or death, and when you do not send for me I would be justified in feeling that either you do not want me, or are so utterly indifferent to the ministrations of the Church that you forgot it .- The Parish Outlook, Zion Church, Rome.
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CHEATING OURSELVES OF LIFE .- Morn- ing prayer cannot safely be deferred until to-night or to-morrow. Many a to-day has been seriously harmed by such deferring. The temptation to weaken ourselves in this way by lack of spiritual oxygen is increas- ingly present in these complex days of crowding pressure, when man's business as well as the king's business requireth haste. To yield to the temptation is to lose both time and strength. And hurried or abbreviated prayer is almost as weaken- ing as no prayer at all. If the summons Home should come to-night, we should be sorry to have to face the King without having had our full loving conference with him early in the day. It would be a poor memory for our last day on earth. It is a poor memory for any day on earth .- S. S. Times.
MISTAKEN FEAR OF MISTAKES .- There is risk at every step in life.“ We cannot escape that; but we can choose whether we will let the risk in doing right hold us back from making any attempt. The fear of making a mistake is a healthy fear so far as it steadies our judgment; it is a block on our progress if it holds up when we ought to act. "Don't you forget," said a keen-headed Christian business man when a friend referred to him as one who never made a mistake, "that the man who never makes a mistake never makes any- thing else,-and I'm not Oslerized yet !" The worst mistake may be the unwilling- ness to risk a mistake. The man who is willing to make a few mistakes while doing his best is most likely to earn the reputation of never making a mistake .- S. S. Times.
HOW TO BE ENTHUSIASTIC .- Enthus- iasm without conviction is a temporary affair. Yet for almost every sort of weak- ness and lanquid endeavor in Christian work the common prescription is "more zeal," "more enthusiasm." More than one guilty conscience has sought peace in a forced activity that soon became distaste-
ful and was in its turn dropped, leaving the last state of that man worst than the first. Enthusiasm is an effect, not a cause ; and to stir up enthusiasm without a true cause is to set the pyramid on its apex. Tireless zeal is nothing less than the effect of rigid conviction. You do not have to urge the ordinary man to make all the money that he can; he is always zealous about that because-right or wrong-he is convinced that money is a good thing to have. The majority of parents do not have to be constrained to take an interest in their children ; love makes them zealous. When conviction is present, zeal will not be lacking. And enthusiasm is one of the inost certain measures of conviction. The basis of Christian zeal is the overmaster- ing conviction that Christ is a necessity for every human soul. If we would pos- sess enthusiasms worth cultivating we must be possessed by right convictions. To have right convictions is binding upon all. -S. S. Times.
EXPORTING OUR RELIGION .- Religion is a thing that spoils by keeping. It is as little meant to be bottled and preserved as is the air of heaven. In the year 1812, The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions asked the Massachusetts Legislature for a charter, and it was re- fused. The main objection was that this organization was designed to afford means of exporting religion, whereas there was none too much of that article to spare from amongst ourselves. To this the petitioners made the unanswerable reply that religion was an article of which the more we ex- ported, the more we had. Finally their request was heeded, to the eternal benefit. of the home field as well as the foreign. Neither churches nor men can live spirit- ually unless they export their religion. All the good we have must be kept mov- ing. He may take of Christianity who will, but he that hoards it loses it, while he that gives it out has it the more abundantly .- S. S. Times.
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158 THE GOSPEL MESSENGER. TREASURER'S REPORT. The Treasurer acknowledges the receipt of the following sums during the month of August, 1906, viz:
Diocesan
Missions.
Diocesan
Expense
Fund.
Domestic
Missions.
Foreign
Missions.
General
Missions.
Deaf Mute
Missions.
Christmas
Fund.
General Clergy
Relief Fund.
Church
Building Fund.
Ministerial
Education
Colored
Missions.
Relief Fund of the Diocese
Adams,
$ 6.44 $. $
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
Afton,
Alexandria Bay,
1.35
Altmar,
Antwerp,
Auburn, St. John's,
St. Peter's,
30.00
Augusta,
Aurora,
Bainbridge,
3.30
Baldwinsville,
Big Flats,
Binghamt'n,ChristCh. 66 Good Shepherd Trinity .
Boonville,
9.52
Bridgewater,
Brookfield,
3.00
Brownville,
Camden,
11.25
Canastota,
Candor,
Cape Vincent,
Carthage,
Cayuga,
1.71
Cazenovia,
Champion,
Chenango Forks,
Chittenango,
Chadwicks,
Clark's Mills,
Clayton,
Clayville
Cleveland,
Clinton,
Constableville,
Copenhagen,
Cortland,
Deerfield,
Dexter,
Dey's Landing,
Dryden,
2.15
Durhamville,
1.50
Earlville,
East Onondaga,
Ellisburg,
.30
Elmira, Emmanuel,
Grace,
Trinity,
Evan's Mills,
Fayetteville,
Forestport,
5.00
Frederick's Corners, .30
Fulton,
Glen Park,
Great Bend,
Greene,
15.00
Greig,
Guilford,
8.91
Hamilton,
Harpursville,
Hayt's Corners,
.50.
...
. . .
...
7.00
Fund.
-
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Diocesan Missions.
Diocesan
Expense
Fund.
Domestic
· Missions.
Foreign
Missions.
General
Missions.
Missions. Deaf Mute
Christmas
Fund.
Relief Fund. General Clergy
Church
Building Fund.
Ministerial
Education
Colored
Missions.
Relief Fund of
the Diocees
Holland Patent, . $
·
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
Homer,
Horseheads,
5.00
Ithaca,
10.80
Jamesville,
5.50
Jordan,
Kiddders Ferry,
Lacona,
2.00
LaFargeville,
1.43
Lowville,
Manlius,
Marcellus,
McDonough,
McLean,
Memphis,
Mexico,
Millport,
Moravia,
.50
New Berlin,
New Hartford,
4.25
New York Mills,
4.25
Northville,
3.06
Norwich,
Oneida,
6.47
Onondaga Castle,
Oriskany,
Oriskany Falls,
3.76
Oswego, Christ Ch .. Evangelists,
Owego,
14.60
Oxford,
15.00 16.00
16.55
Paris Hill,
2.84
Phoenix,
2.53
Pierrepont Manor,
Port Byron,
6.57
Pulaski,
Redfield,
Redwood,
Rome, Zion, St. Joseph's,
Romulus.
Sackett's Harbor,
3.15
Seneca Falls,
34.54
Sherburne,
Skaneateles,
34.64
80.47
Slaterville,
Smithboro,
Speedsville,
Spencer,
1.67
Syracuse. All Saints, Calvary,
Ch. of Saviour, Grace, St. John's,
.60
St. Luke's,
St. Mark's,
St. Paul's,
St. Philips, Trinity,
2.86
" E. Emmanuel, 10.48
Theresa,
Trenton,
. . .
Trumansburg,
..
. . .
.
. 40
Port Leyden,
1.00
Mount Upton,
20.68
Fund.
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THE GOSPEL MESSENGER.
Diocesan Missions.
Diocesan
Expense
Fund.
Domestic
Missions.
Foreign
General
Missions.
Deaf Mute
Missions.
Christmas
General Clergy
Relief Fund.
Church
Building Fund.
Ministerial
Education
Colored
Missions.
Relief Fund of
the Diocese
Union Springs, $ 2.10 $ $ $
Utica, Calvary,
Grace,
9.66
8.17
66
St. Andrew's,
St. George's,
St. Luke's, Trinity, 5.05
Van Etten,
Warner,
4.00
Waterloo,
26.63
Watertown, Trinity, St. Paul's,.
Redeemer,
Waterville,
5 00 5.00
Waverly,
Weedsport,
8.00
Wellsburg.
Westmoreland,
2.00
Whitesboro.
Whitney's Point,
2.00
Willard.
4.00
Willowdale,
1.75
Windsor,
Convocation, 1st Dist.
2d Dist.
3d Dist.
4th Dist.
5th Dist.
6th Dist.
RECAPITULATION.
Diocesan Missions
$350 01
Diocesan Expense Fund
42 36
General Missions
107 36
Deaf Mute Missions
16 55
Miscellaneous.
Income Episcopate Fund
$873 75
Work Among Jews
1 25
Interest to July 1
41 75
Total
$1,433 03
FRANK L. LYMAN, Treasurer,
108 Pearl St., Syracuse.
69
$
$
$
Holy Cross, 10.09
.
Fund.
Missions.
Fund.
The Gospel Messenger.
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Trust AND
Utica Deposit Co., UTICA, N. Y.
ASSETS OVER FIVE MILLION DOLLARS.
.This Company Acts as Executor, Administrator, Trustee, Guardian. Interest allowed on deposits.
4 JAMES S SHERMAN, President. J. FRANCIS DAY, Secretary.
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CALENDAR.
Nov. 1-All Saints.
4-Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity.
11-Twenty-second Sunday after Trinity.
18-Twenty-third Sunday after Trinity.
25-Sunday next before Advent.
30-St. Andrew.
BISHOP'S APPOINTMENTS.
November.
14-Wednesday, Evening, New Berlin.
16-Friday, P. M., Clinton; Evening, Clarks Mills.
18-Sunday, A. M., Westmoreland; Evening, Zion, Rome.
20-Tuesday Evening, Oriskany.
23-Friday-Fayetteville, Jamesville.
28-Wednesday Evening, St. Luke's, Utica.
December.
2-Sunday, A. M., Calvary, Utica.
9-Sunday, A. M., Weedsport.
9-Sunday, P. M., Warner.
16-Sunday, A. M., Holland Patent.
16-Sunday, P. M., Trenton.
19-Wednesday, Jordan, Memphis.
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CHRISTMAS FUND.
The last Convention of the Diocese, it will be remembered, voted in favor of merging the diocesan fund for Aged and In- firm Clergy, known as the Christmas Fund, with the General Clergy Relief Fund of the whole Church in the United States. The
proposition had been before the Convention for several years, and consequently the action was not hasty, but deliberate and well considered. Let it be remembered also that the merger does not involve the giving up of invested funds, but only the administration of funds to be dis- tributed, and that with every assurance of attention to the needs of our benefici- aries. The only thing that we have to do, therefore, is to remember those needs and be liberal in our gifts.
At a recent meeting of the Trustees of the Christmas Fund the Treasurer stated that the offerings had fallen off, and that he was hardly able to pay the last quarter's stipends. It was decided, therefore, that an earnest appeal be sent to the Clergy of the Diocese, entreating them not only not to forget the offering for the purpose on the coming Christmas Day, but to urge upon their people also the great necessity of being generous in the matter. The de- crease in the amounts received by our own Treasurer may be due to the fact, that some of the Clergy have sent their Christ- mas collections directly to the General Clergy Relief in Philadelphia in- If stead of sending them to him.
SO we would say 10 ad- vantage is gained by so doing, while our own beneficiaries suffer a great disad- vantage. They really need more rather than less ; and while no doubt we shall gain by the merger, we certainly have not gained up to this time by the partial trans- ference to the general fund of money upon which our diocesan officers have depended to pay the pensions. After this it will not make much difference, because all of our present beneficiaries will be placed on the list of the general Treasurer: but it will be more canonical to send the Christ- mas offering to the diocesan Treasurer.
that
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If another offering be made on Quinqua- gesima Sunday, according to the general canon, that may be sent to Philadelphia. Let us at least take care of our own poor, and in order to do so we shall have to be more mindful of them than we have been.
STUDIES IN THE PRAYER BOOK.
Before we leave the subject of the Can- ticles in the daily offices, there are one or two points to be considered. First, with regard to the permissive use of alternative canticles, what is the best principle of choice ? Shall we use the Benedictus or the Jubilate after the second lesson in Morning Prayer? And in Evening Prayer shall we take the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, or the psalms that are given as alternates ? The Prayer Book itself indicates its own preference by plac- ing the "Evangelical Canticles," as they are called, first, and directing them to be used unless there may be good reason for substituting others. The Benedictus, Magnificat, and Nunc Dimittis are called evangelical canticles because they are found in the Gospels, and were all uttered in close connection with the Birth of our Lord Jesus Christ. They constitute, there- fore, perpetual memorials of the Incarna- tion of the Son of God; and doubtless it was for that reason that they were first adopted in the service of the Church, to glorify God for His mercy in sending his Only begotten Son to redeem the world. Certainly this is a very beautiful and de- votional thought, and it would help the worshippers very much to keep it in mind when these canticles are used. The alter- nates are all of them splendid songs of praise, and may be appropriately used on occasions when a variation is desired; but they are after all only psalms from the Old Testament, with nothing specially Christ-
ian about them; they have their regular place in the Psalter where they are repeated in due order, and they can never quite supply the place of those which are the full expression of New Testament worship.
Secondly, a word about the rendering of the canticles in music may not be inap- propriate in this connection. With regard to singing them as anthems we would simply say, that it is much to be desired that they be not too florid, nor too long drawn out. In these days people object to long services, and many are kept away from Church by them; and it is not the sermons that make them long. The Clergy have had it pretty well drilled into them that the pulpit must not make itself too prolix ; and when the time is over-run now- a-days it is usually due to the music. The interminable Te Deums, Jubilates, and offertory anthems are sometimes very wearisome. But as to what is called "chanting," the ordinary method of rendering the canticles, the great need of the day in our Churches generally, both in city and country, is training. The choirs need to be taught how to chant, particularly in three points-1st the proper selection of chants ; 2nd, the pointing and emphasis ; and 3rd, the time. Strictly speaking, the chanting is intended to be musical reading, and it is expected that the congregation as well as the choir should take part in it. There are many Churches in England in which one will find the chanting, not only of the canticles, but of the whole Psalter, carried on by the people with the choir, and in some of them the congregation will do it if there be no choir. But in order to make this possible the chants must be such as people generally can sing, simple, not too high, nor too elaborate. Some of the fanciful double chants that one occasion- ally hears are not fit for the purpose at all. Then, if we would have our chanting in- telligent and edifying it is very important not to put an absurd and unmeaning em- phasis on syllables. Alas! that Dr. Hutchins and his Committee of General
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