The gospel messenger, Diocese of Central New York, Part 45

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Bishop Tuttle's Diocese:

St. Paul's, Oxford

40 00

Church Home for Aged and Infirm Colored People:

St. Paul's, Oxford 5 00

Work Among the Jews:

Emmanuel, Elmira, 1 20

Archdeacon's Salary:

Grace, Syracuse, 50 00

C. N. Y. Bible and Prayer Book Society :

Trinity, Binghamton 2 00

$5,445 22

FRANK L. LYMAN, Treasurer, 108 Pearl Street, Syracuse.

$ . .

6.83

99.16

St. George's, .

Waterloo,

21.32

5.71

Westmoreland,

Fund.

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BISHOP'S APPOINTMENTS. September.

Alexandria Bay, Redwood, Theresa. Redeemer, Watertown. Adams, Carthage, Copenhagen, Champion, Lowville, Greig, Port Leyden, Constableville, Boonville, Forestport, St. Philip's, Syracuse.

The Bishop expects to

visit the above Parishes and Missions in September, the dates will be given later, when some changes may be made.

We must ask the Secretaries of the Con- vocations, of the Woman's Auxiliary, and of all other societies, indeed, all of our correspondents, if they will not kindly send in reports and items of news at least as early as the 25th of the month, in order to secure insertion in the coming issue. Of course it will sometimes happen that material coming at that time will be too late, because the columns are already filled with that which had come in earlier; but it is generally possible to insert articles at that time, if they be not too long. Let us also ask a general pardon for any omission that may occur, on the assurance that we do as well as we can for every contributor, and are duly thankful to them for their trouble in writing to us.

CONVENTION OF THE DIOCESE.

The Thirty-ninth Annual Convention was held in Trinity Church, Utica-The Rev. John R. Harding, D.D., Rector-on Tuesday and Wednesday, June 11th and 12th, eighty-nine Clergymen and ninety- eight Lay Delegates representing fifty parishes, being present.

On Tuesday, Evening Prayer was said by the Rev. F. W. Eason, the Lessons being read by the Rev. William A. Braithwaite.

On Wednesday morning, the Litany was read by the Rev. John C. Jagar, and the Holy Communion was administered by the Bishop of the Diocese, assisted by the Rev. W. W. Bellinger, D.D., the Rev. A. H. Rogers reading the Epistle, and the Rev. George G. Perrine reading the Gos- pel; at this service the Bishop read his annual address.

On Tuesday evening, the Bishop and Mrs. Olinsted gave a reception to the Clerical and Lay Delegates in the Parish House of Trinity Church, which was largely attended and greatly enjoyed by all present.

The Rev. James K. Parker was elected Secretary, the Rev. James Winslow Clarke, Assistant Secretary, and Mr. Frank L. Lyman, Treasurer of the Diocese. Other officers elected were the Rev. J. A. Staunton as Registrar, and also a Trustee of the Diocese; Messrs. C. W. Andrews and Lonis Krumbhaar. Trustees of the Parochial Fund: Mr. Frank L. Lyman, Trustee of the Christ- mas Fund; Messrs. P. C. J. De Angelis, Alfred Coxe, Egbert Bagg, and Chas. A. Miller, Trustees of the Bible and Prayer Book Society, and as members of the Standing Committee of the Diocese, the Rev. John R. Harding, D. D., Robert M. Duff, D.D., W. D. Lancey Wilson, D. D., and the Rev. E. H. Coley, aud Messrs. William D. Dunning, George T. Jack. John R. Van Wagenen and E. E. Emerson.

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Deputies to the General Convention were chosen as follows: Clerical, the Revs. William W. Bellinger, D.D., Herbert G. Coddington, D.D., Harry S. Long- ley and William Bours Clarke. Lay, Messrs. Charles Andrews of Syracuse, Anson R. Flower of Watertown, William H. Watson, M.D., of Utica, and Edward L. Pierce of Syracuse.

The Provisional Deputies are the Rev. Messrs. Frank N. Westcott, James K. Parker, John A. Staunton, and E. W. Saphore, and Messrs. Geo. M. Weaver of Utica, W. II. Shaw of Binghamton, George Underwood of Auburn, and Thos. H. Stryker of Rome.

The Rev. Robert M. Duff, D.D., and Mr. Geo. M. Weaver were nominated as Trustees of the General Theological Seminary.

The Bishop appointed as Examining Chaplains, the Rev. John R. Harding, D.D., W. W. Bellinger, D.D., H. N. Hyde, A. R. B. Hegeman, W. DeL. Wilson, D.D., Harry S. Longley and William M. Beauchamp, D.D.

The Report of the Treasurer of the Diocese was very gratifying, showing a balance in hand for each fund, $28,051.63, having been received by him, and $2,889 on hand with which to begin the new year.

A number of changes were made in the Constitution and Canons and Rules of Order, the principal of which were an amendment to the Constitution ratifying the action of the last Convention in chang- ing the time of holding the Diocesan Con- vention from the second Tuesday in June to the first Tuesday in June, and another which was voted upon, and laid over for ratification at the next Annual Convention, providing that the number of lay delegates to the Convention should not exceed three from parishes in union with the Conven- tion. A change was made in the Rules of Order shortening the time of the recess on the afternoon of the second day of the Con- vention.

The Convention recommended to the authorities of the Sunday Schools through- out the Diocese, that they promote in their

schools voluntary offerings for Diocesan Missions during the Advent Season every year, and the Bishop appointed the Rev. John C. Jagar, to carry out the plan recommended.

The Convention expressed its thankful- ness for the indication that has been given during the year just past of the soundness in the faith of the American Church in the judicial decisions of our Ecclesiastical Courts and in the manifest approval of those decisions by the several other Diocesan Conventions.

The Reports of the Archdeacon and of the Board of Managers for Diocesan Mis- sions showed that the missionary work of the Diocese was in a healthy condition, and a committee consisting of the Arch- deacon and the Deans of the six Convoca- tions was appointed to unify the assess- ments and appropriations for Diocesan Missions throughout the Diocese. A Com- mission was also appointed consisting of the Archdeacon and Messrs. Edward L. Pierce, Anson R. Flower, George M. Weaver, George Underwood and W. H. Shaw, to enquire into the condition of clerical support in the Diocese and report to the next Annual Convention such facts and recommendations as may be suggested by such enquiry.

After prayers and benediction by the Bishop, the Convention adjourned at 5:00 o'clock Wednesday.

BISHOP'S ADDRESS.

Dear Brethren of the Clergy and of the Laity :

Grace be unto you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ !

Since our last Convention we have lost by death from among the Clergy of our Diocese, the Rev. Osgood, E. Herrick D.D., of Watertown, the Rev. Ernest Mel- ville, of Fayetteville, and the Rev. Oliver Owen, of Clinton. Of the faithful laity there have died Mrs. McKnight, widow of the Rev. Dr. McKnight, of Elmira, and Mrs. Grant, wife of the Rector of Zion Church, Fulton, Mrs. Merchant, of Guil- ford, Mrs. Jackson, of Syracuse, Mrs,

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Forey, of Utica, Mrs. Clarke, of Oxford, Mrs. Congdon, of Trumansburg, and Mrs. Doolittle, of Paris Hill, and Messrs. John D. Barrow, W. Parry Kennard, Charles W. Mott, B. D. Gilbert, John M. Hawkins, and E. C. Delavan, men whose names and faces have been well known in times past in this Con- vention. Three of the Bishops of the American Church have also been taken away, the Rt. Rev. Dr. Nicholson, of Mil- waukee, the Rt. Rev. Dr. Seymour, of Springfield, and the Rt. Rev. Dr. Schereschewsky, retired Bishop of the China Mission. This is not the time to speak particularly of the good deeds of these departed ones, whom we now reckon among the saints of God, but we may com- mnemorate them in our prayers, and ask for grace to follow their good examples, for which we praise His Holy Name. (Let. us pray. Here follows the prayer from the Burial Office: "Almighty and Ever- living God, &c.")

My official acts since the last Convention have been as follows: Baptized one adult and seven infants. Confirmed 962 persons, and received three, making a total of 965, added to the possible communicants of the Diocese. Officiated at three funerals. Four Candidates have been ordained to the Diaconate, viz. : Messrs. Franklin . Lec Metcalf, Walter E. Jones, Roy Irving Murray, and Luther L. Weller. Four Deacons have been ordained to the Priesthood, viz. : The Rev. Messrs. Harry Idle, Chas. W. Hakes, M.D., Harrison W. Foreman, and Howard C. Ackerman. Messrs. Chas. H. L. Ford, Jos. Ray Totten, Raymond Lawrence, Elwyn H. Spear, Leo. T. Wilcox, and Win. S. Stevens have been received as Postulants, and the last named, Mr. Stevens, has been admitted as a Candidate for Holy Orders.

I have given my consent to the Conse? cration of the Rev. Chas. Scadding, D.D., as Bishop of Oregon, and the Rev. Beverly Dandridge Tucker, D.D., as Bishop Coadjutor of Southern Virginia.

Letters dimissory have been given to

the following, viz: The Rev. Edward W. Parmelee to Michigan, the Rev. Chas. N. Tyndell and the Rev. Wm. D. Manross to Massachusetts, the Rev. David C. Hunt- ington to Indianapolis, the Rev. Daniel D. Waugh to Connecticut, the Rev. Geo. H. Trickett to New York, the Rev. John B. Pitcher to Western New York, the Rev. Frederick T. Henstridge to Los Angeles, the Rev. Leonard J. Christler to Montana, the Rev. Arthur C. Clarke to Vermont, the Rev. Julian E. Ramsdell to Chicago, the Rev. Samuel D. Day to Georgia, and the Rev. Ransom M. Church to Ohio. The following Clergy have been received into the Diocese, viz .: The Rev. Messrs. Geo. E. Edgar, from Tenessee, Norton T. Houser from Cen. Pennsylvania, Wm. A. Braithwaite from New York, Francis W. Eason from Nebraska, John Carl Jagar from South Carolina, Thomas Duck from Western New York, and John T. Lewis from Q'Appelle, Canada.

You will observe in this report, brethren, an appearance of falling away from the prosperous condition of last year, and possibly some of you may be disposed to think that affairs are going badly in the Diocese. But I beg of you not to be alarmed. Do not allow the statistical critics, who draw dreadful conclusions every year from their comparisons of figures, to frighten you. In our last report the number of Confirmations was un- usually large-and every one who is familiar with parish work knows how frequently it happens, that the large classes of one year are apt to be followed by smaller ones the year after. The move- ment among the Clergy, too, which has been phenomenal since the last Convention, would necessarily tend to reduce the num- ber confirmed, because the work of parishes is broken in upon, the services become more or less irregular, the Sunday School, the visiting, and the teaching of the people, are interrupted.

And now this thought leads us to the question whether the Clergy generally real- ize the effeet upon the Church's work which the excessive tendency to change from place

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to place inevitably produces. I would not have you imagine for a moment that I do not sympathize with the Clergy in some of the reasons which prompt them to move. Unfortunately there is at times such a lack of interest in their work on the part of the people, and so much adverse criticism of them, that they are not always able to bear up under the unhappy con- ditions-and above all, they are frequently compelled to live and to bring up their families in such straitened circumstances, that no one can blame them for reaching out for something better. It is an old cry, no doubt, but it is all the more urgent for that reason, and must be perpetually re- peated, that there is no class of educated people so poorly paid for their faithful work as the Ministers of the Gospel-and should any one be disposed to say, "it is only what men might expect who put their hands to the plow in the work of Jesus Christ, and it will make saints of them"- the obvious reply is, "yes, but what will it make of the people who allow it to be so, who likewise have taken up the cross to follow the same Master ? Is it making saints of them ?" Alas ! no, dear friends. And let me say to the laity with all affectionate earnestness, that while this state of things undoubtedly exists, I am quite sure that it arises more from lack of thought and consideration on their part, than from any unwillingness to make their Ministers comfortable. As the Psalmist says, "Blessed is he that considereth the poor and needy." It is a matter that needs considering, that is, looking into, and when you find that the Clergy are really straitened, then, if necessary, deny your- selves in some of your luxuries, that you may be able to supply some of their neces- sities. Indeed, it gives me great pleasure to inform you that in three or four cases recently the salaries of our city Clergy have been generously increased, thus not only making them more comfortable in material things, but also making them happier in the . consciousness that they are appreciated by their people, which s worth far more to them than

the value . of the money. There is nothing equal to that in stimulating them to renewed effort, and in prolong- ing the pastoral relation ; and I would that in these prosperous times, when the cost of living is increased, the same thing might be repeated in the country places, where it is needed even more than in the cities. And at all events, if an increase of salary be not possible, the payment of what is given should be prompt and on the day that it is due. It is not only unjust to the minister to keep him waiting, nobody knows how long, for the money that is owing him, but it is really unkind. He has his obligations which he has promised to meet at a certain date-there are ad- vantages accruing to him if he can pay at that time, and it is simply cruel to cause him to forego those advantages, and to make his heart sick with hopes deferred and disappointed again and again. The money is his, he has probably more than earned it. If it be not in the parish treasury at the time, it should be borrowed by the authorities of the parish until it comes in from the people. It is very hard to work among those who seem to care but little for their pastor's comfort and happi- ness.

But while all this is eminently true, it does seem to me as if the idea of the pastoral relation had become dim in the American Church. In the older countries, particularly in England, the Priest goes to his parish with the understanding that the people of that parish are his flock, which the Chief Shepherd has committed to his care-that he is there for the purpose of ministering to them in holy things, and that, as the Ordinal says, he is "never to cease his labor to bring all of them unto that agreement in the faith and knowledge of God, and to that ripeness and perfect- ness of age in Christ, that there be no place left among them either for error in relig- ion, or for viciousness of life." It is not, therefore, a missionary work that the parish priest is called to primarily, but a pastoral work-his chief duty is the ministering to those already there, and

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he bringing in of new adult recruits is a econdary duty. While, therefore, in this ountry, and under the present condition f a divided Christianity which leaves so any unbaptized, unconverted, and un- aught, every faithful Clergyman must be n a measure a missionary, yet the pastoral lation is really first in organized parishes. But how often do we hear the pastor say, fter a very short residence in a parish : Well, I have done all I can do in this lace-there is no possibility of growth ere. I must be going elsewhere !" Of ourse, when the Chief Shepherd calls a an to another place, he is bound to go; ut does the Chief Shepherd need to be eminded, as if He had forgotten ? Can e imagine John Keble, so many years- icar of the rural parish at Hursley, com- laining, when, let us say, ten years of his ervice there had passed, that there was othing more for him to do in that parish ? r, to take the highest example, can we magine the Blessed Lord complaining that erusalem and little Palestine were too mall for His great powers, when Rome, nd Athens, and Corinth, and Antioch and Damascus, were lying out in the great orld, all in the direst need of ITis teach- ig?

I wish to express my thanks to the Diocese for the action taken by the last onvention in the appointment of an Arch- eacon, and also to those friends who so indly assisted me in providing his salary r the first year. I do not know what I would have done in this year now closing, hich I may call "the year of the exodus," it had not been for the Archdeacon-and give you to understand that, having once joyed the comfort of such assistance in e Mission work of the Diocese, I shall ver know how to get along without it. here were a few, I believe, last year, who ud apprehensions lest the Archdeacon would be a terror to the missionaries ; but, insidering the fact that most of our ioceses have such officers, I could not derstand why it should be so; and at all ents, the personality of the present Arch- acon of Central New York has, I think,

removed the last vestige of such a fear, and, so far as I am aware, everybody is satisfied that we made no mistake in the appoint- ment of such an officer. . The purpose of providing one year's salary for the Arch- deacon by subscription was chiefly to enable the Diocese to catch up in the missionary funds, and to meet the deficiency existing at the close of the last fiscal year. This, I am happy to learn from the Treasurer's report, has resulted successfully, and since the amount subscribed will suffice until next October, the burden for the ensuing year will not be excessive, when the Diocese shall become responsible for the Arch- deacon's support. It has been suggested that the assessment for that purpose be a separate one, and not incorporated with that for Diocesan Missions, and I am inclined to think that the plan is a wise one. I commend to the consideration of the Convention the necessary amendment to the Canon which such a change of plan would require. And another improvement which it seems to me it would be well to make is the appointment by Canon of an Executive Committee of the Board of Managers, of which committee it shall be the duty to unify and arrange the parochial assessments for Missions and the stipends to be paid to the missionaries, and thus avoid the confusion and lack of uniformity that are apt to arise when half a dozen committees work separately and without consultation in different parts of the Diocese. The Diocese is really the unit, not the District. The districts are simply convenient arrangements for more fre- quent consultation among the Clergy, and for a nearer oversight under the general supervision of the Diocesan officers, but the offerings of the people are for the Mis- sions of the Diocese, not of the District ; sometimes the same missionary works in two districts at once; and the same principle of assessment obtains or should obtain in them all alike. A general Executive Committee, therefore, composed of men from each district, could collate and compare the reports of the several District Committees and remove any dis-

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crepancies that might occur in their pro- positions. An amendment to Article III of the Constitution is also necessary, in order to restore to that instrument the re- quirement that lay delegates to the Con- vention shall come only from parishes in union with the Convention, and shall not exceed three in number-provisions which must have been inadvertently omitted when the latest amendment was adopted.

We are now in the midst of a national celebration which is of immense interest to all Americans, and indeed to all the peoples of the world. The discovery of Columbus was of vast importance, of course, as leading up to the greater events that were to come, but it was the settle- ment at Jamestown which fixed the charac- ter of the institutions that were to govern this new world; that they should be English and not Spanish, institution's of freedom, and not those of despotism. And as our Puritan brethren do not hesitate to make the very most they possibly can of the glorious principles and deeds of their spiritual progenitors in New England, usually overlooking the fact that America had any other forefathers, it certainly is not an unseemly act of pride on our part to call attention to the truths which the celebration of 1907 emphasizes, that the first Englishmen to gain a foot- hold within the territory of the United States were those of Jamestown-the first Clergyman to be settled here was a Priest of the Church of England-the first services of worship in the English tongue established within our borders were those of the Book of Common Prayer, and the first free legislative assembly held its ses- sions in that Church in Virginia, more than a year before the Mayflower came to anchor in Massachusetts Bay. It is not, I assure you, in any partisan spirit, that I call attention to these historical truths, but in order that they may be understood, that honor may be given where honor is due -that if there be any prognostications in history they may have their proper con- sideration, and especially that we may be duly thankful for the heritage which has

descended to us in the Doctrine, Discipline and Worship of the Protestant Episcopal Church. And if so be that we be truly thankful, we will not neglect to express our gratitude in that Thank Offering which is to be presented at the General Convention in Richmond in October next. Let us not be so paltry as to complain that the Church is always looking for more money, but rather let us recognize that in this matter particularly the Church is say- ing, in the words of the Apostle, "I seek not yours, but you."

Another thing for which we have to be thankful during the year that is past, is the indication that has been given of the soundness in the faith of this American Church in the judicial decisions of our ecclesiastical courts, and in the manifest approval of those. decisions by several Diocesan Conventions. And surely we may be pardoned, in this connection, if we here express our appreciation of the fact, that the able paper, in which the decision of the Court of Review was set forth, was from the hand of our eminent jurist, the distinguished Chancellor of Central New York. The developments which have since taken place in the career of the accused in that trial, have entirely vindicated the wisdom and the importance of such a decision. For, my brethren, we have come to the point where the tide of individualism in the Church must take a turn, if the Church is to maintain the trust which has been committed unto her. It is interesting, and sometimes quite awful, to observe how principles once adopted, possibly without a full and definite understanding of their far-reaching tendencies, always work them- selves out by means of an inexorable logic. It may take centuries for them to come to their climax, but they always get there when the time is ripe. This is the case to-day with what has been called "private judgment" in things religious. When Luther and the other Protestant leaders on the continent of Europe enunciated that principle of private judgment, they chiefly meant by it that the individual had a right to choose whether he would be a Catholic

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The gospel messenger, Diocese of Central New York, Part 45

Author: Publication date: 1905-1908 Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y. : Diocese of Central New York Number of Pages: 708

Author:
Publication date: 1905-1908
Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y. : Diocese of Central New York
Number of Pages: 708