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REMITTANCES and letters should be addressed to
THE GOSPEL MESSENGER, UTICA, N. Y.
Published by the Rt. Rev. CHARLES T. OLMSTED, D. D., 159 Park Avenue, Utica, N. Y.
The Cymric Printing and Publishing Co., 31-37 Catharine St.
CALENDAR.
August 4-Tenth Sunday after Trinity.
6-Transfiguration.
11-Eleventh Sunday after Trinity.
18-Twelfth Sunday after Trinity.
24-St. Bartholemew ..
25-Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity.
BISHOP'S APPOINTMENTS.
1-Sunday, Evening, Alexandria Bay.
2-Monday, P. M., Redwood.
2-Monday, Evening, Theresa.
3-Tuesday, A. M., Adams.
3-Tuesday, Evening, Redeemer, Watertown.
4-Wednesday, A. M., Copenhagen.
4-Wednesday, P. M., Champion.
4-Wednesday, Evening, Lowville.
5-Thursday, A. M., Greig. 5-P. M., Port Leyden.
5-Thursday, Evening, Constableville.
6-Friday, P. M., Forestport.
6-Friday, Evening, Boonville.
15-Sunday, Evening, St. Joseph's, Rome.
18-Wednesday, Evening, St. Philip's, Syracuse. Later in month-Trumansburg, Interlaken and other places in that neighborhood.
It will be remembered that the next Lambeth Conference is to be held in the summer of 1908. The last one was in 1897, commemorating the 1300th anniver- sary of the coming of St. Augustine to England, and but for the fact that the Gen- eral Convention of our American Church occurs this year, doubtless the next Cou- ference would have been in 1907, ten years being the usual interim. A new feature is
to be added to the Conference this time, viz. : an International Pan-Anglican Congress, in which other Clergymen be- sides Bishops, and also laymen will take part, and even the ladies will have a place too.
This Congress is to be held in London from June 15th to 24th, 1908. It will begin with a celebration of the Holy Com- munion in Westminster Abbey on June 15th; a service of Intercession for the workers, and a Reception for Delegates in the evening, and will close on St. John Baptist's day with a celebration in St. Paul's Cathedral. Great popular meetings will be in Albert Hall every evening dur- ing the session, besides the daily meetings of the Members and Delegates in the morn- ing and afternoon of each day. Six main subjects will be discussed, viz., The Church and Human Society; The Church and Human Thought; The Church's Ministry ; The Church's Missions in non-Christian lands ; The Church's Missions in Christen- dom; The Anglican Communion. "Each of these six great subjeets is to be discussed for six days in the mornings and after- moons. They are in fact great sections sitting simultaneously in six centres after the model of the sectional meetings of the British Association."
Members of the Congress are those who pay for a members ticket, and may be either men or women. Delegates are those appointed from outside the British Isles, every diocese having the privilege of sending six, either men or women. Free entertainment of Delegates will be afforded in London or suburbs during the sessions of the Congress. It is proposed to have a Thank Offering at the elose for missions.
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STUDIES IN THE PRAYER BOOK.
We come now to treat particularly of the Communion Service, and there are certain points which concern it as a whole, of which it may be well to speak before ' going into its details. One of these is the time of day at which it may be celebrated. And here let us remember that we get into the region of controversy. In what we have gone over hitherto, the differences of custom referred to have been chiefly mat- ters of taste or of individual preference, about which there is no reason to have any feeling or serious debate. But around the Altar Service disputes have raged, and a good deal of passion has at times been dis- played. It will be necessary for us to avoid this as much as possible. Our desire is to speak dispassionately, calmly, reverently, and to make an earnest effort to ascertain the mind of the Church as it is expressed in the Book of Common Prayer. First, then, let us consider the question : What does the Prayer Book indicate concerning the time of day for Holy Communion ? We all understand, of course, that the institution of the Sacra- ment took place at night, after the Paschal Supper was concluded. We know, too, that for reasons which the Church con- sidered imperative, it became in early ages the universal rule to restrict the service to the morning hours. We see some of the reasons for this even in the New Testament, where St. Paul rebukes the Corinthians for their irreverence and the disrespect which they showed to the "holy mysteries." They treated it as if it were a common meal, and did "not discern the Lord's Body." And as time went on this tendency naturally spread, and in- creased to such an extent that the Church was scandalized. What was to be done? The Church is the keeper and guardian of the holy gifts which God has bestowed upon her, and it is always her duty to take measures to protect them from profana- tion. The Jewish Passover was at night, because it commemorated an event that took place at night; but the redemption wrought by Christ culminated in the
Resurrection, which occurred in the morn- ing. It is always on Easter Day that we sing:
"The Day of Resurrection, Earth tell it out abroad ; The Passover of gladness, The passover of God !"
That is the difference between the Jewish and the Christian dispensations-the one was the symbolic promise given in the night, the other was the fulfilment which came with the rising of the sun. It was necessary, therefore, that the Eucharist should have been instituted in the night following the conclusion of the older rite, but there was evidently nothing to indicate that our Lord meant that it should be perpetuated at that time; and the Church taking counsel and action for its reverent continuance, decreed that it should always be celebrated before mid- day, in order to bless the beginning of the day and avoid the hours when people are given to heavy eating and carousing. This, then, was the general law and cus- tom of the whole Church when the Prayer Book was translated into English and ar- ranged in its present shape.
And now the question arises, does the Prayer Book indicate, either directly or indirectly, that a change in that custom was to be allowed in the English or American Churches ? Is there a word to show that celebrations of the Holy Com- munion might sometimes be expected in the afternoon or evening? Not one. On the contrary, the indications and the in- ferences are entirely in the other direction. For example, the first Lord's Prayer and the Creed may be omitted if they have "been said immediately before in Morning Prayer." It does not say in either place, "in Morning or Evening Prayer." Again, in all the occasional services to which the Holy Communion is attached, e. g., for Thanksgiving day, for Ordination, Con- secration of a Church, Institution of a Minister, provision is made invariably for Morning Prayer to precede the celebra- tion; the only case in which it is not ex- pressly spoken of as Morning Prayer,
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being in the Consecration of a Church, from which the rubric which so dis- inguished it until 1892, was omitted in the revision, because it referred to the 'Psalms in Metre," which were also lropped from the Book; but that omitted rubric still proves that it was intended to have the service in the morning. It is very evident, therefore, from the Prayer Book itself, that if the Communion is to De immediately preceded by any service, hat service is to be Morning Prayer ; and of course the inference is plain to every alm and unbiased mind, that the time of lay in which the Prayer Book contem- plates and provides for celebrations of the Sacrament is the morning.
And now someone may say, but what is he use ? Why should we be so strict, and "un the risk of depriving people. of the blessing, when they cannot come in the morning, or when the Priest's time is so arranged that he cannot celebrate in the morning? The real question in such ases is, are these things impossibilities, or are they only inconveniences ? Much night be granted by way of temporary ccommodation to actual impossibilities ; out is the well-considered order of the Church to be cast aside merely for the ake of convenience, especially if it is ecured through a self-indulgent unwilling- less to take a little trouble ? It is ours to protect the divine gifts of grace and truth, nd to hand them on to future generations s we have received them, and we must eware not to contravene any time-honored aws intended for their preservation.
PAROCHIAL NOTES.
CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD, ONONDAGA CASTLE .- The Rev. W. S. Hayward, Missionary. We mourn the loss f Sophia Powless, (one of the children upported by the W. A. and J. A. at St. Christina School, Saratoga), and she eemed to have such a sweetness of charac- er as to be carly fitted for a translation nto Paradise. Her last public communion as on Ascension Day, after which she apidly failed, and received it twice after
during her last sickness (the last celebra- tion being but a few days before her deathı), and fell asleep in Jesus, (as we trust), on the 4th Sunday after Trinity at the hour of evening sacrifice. Her last words were, "Now, I am ready to go."
ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, PORT BYRON, after having been closed for some time, has been re-opened for Divine Service, and is served for the present in connection with St. John's Church, Weedsport, by Mr. R. M. Hogarth. The Archdeacon and the Dean of the Fifth District held a Mission at Port Byron recently, when much interest was manifested and a desire ex- pressed for renewed services. The Sunday School has been reorganized, and on Sun- day, July 14th, nine persons received the Holy Communion.
The Archdeacon and the Rev. Mr. McNish recently visited Interlaken, a vil- lage of about 1,200 inhabitants, near the shore of Seneca Lake, where they found 26 families, more or less connected with the Church, with twenty communicants. A service was held on Sunday afternoon, June 30th, in the Masonic Hall, which was largely attended. Arrangements have been made for the Rev. Mr. MeNish to hold regular fortnightly services on Sun- day afternoons.
A handsome font of Caen stone has been presented by the Babies' branch of the W. A. to St. Timothy's Church, Brookfield. The Church has recently been carpeted and the interior re-decorated.
For several years past no services have been held in the old Church at Con- stantia in Oswego County, because the congregation had almost entirely dwindled away, and as a natural consequence the Church building has fallen into more or less of decay. The village, however, is looking up a little in these days. It is pleasantly situated on the north shore of Oneida Lake, and a trolley line is soon to be built from Syracuse, which will bring
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many people there for the summer, and the time seems to have come for the Church to be opened again. There is a very nice property of two acres of land in the centre of the village, and the building is well worth repairing. During the past month the Archdeacon was there and held a
service, which was quite well attended, and the people are sufficiently desirous of re- opening the Church to be willing to do inside repairs, if they can get help in put- ting on a new roof. That will cost $130.00, and the Bishop has promised that it shall be done. Are there any who would like to contribute towards the expense ?
ST. JOSEPH'S CHURCH, ROME .- The Rev. A. L. Byron-Curtiss, Rector. At St. Joseph's Church two improvements and some very necessary repairs will be made this summer. One improvement will be the installing of a new and powerful fur- nace to replace an old one that gave out completely about Easter time. The Rector, the Rev. A. L. Byron-Curtis, sug- gested to the vestry, that instead of having a fair to raise money for a new one, a can- vass of the parish be made and the money thus secured. This was acted on, and the money subscribed by the parishioners. An illustration of the positive sacrifice the families of wage-workers must make in being generous in their Church support is seen, in that while all willingly pledged, many specified that the same was to be paid when the canning factories opened and extra money is earned by the women and children. The other improvement will be the placing of a hard wood floor in the Chancel to replace an old carpet nearly worn out. The money for this was raised by the Ladies' Aid Society at "apron sales," etc. The congregation having done so well, the Rector felt justified in appeal- ing to ontside friends in making repairs to the tower and roof of the Church, and is meeting with such encouragement that this will be done also.
MESSENGER.
DIOCESAN.
The Rev. Franklin L. Metcalf was ad- vanced to the Priesthood by the Bishop of the Diocese on St. Peter's day, June 29th, in Grace Church, Utica. The candidate was presented by the Rev. J. R. Harding, D. D., and the sermon preached by the Rev. E. F. H. J. Masse. The Epistle was read by the Rev. W. G. Bentley, and the Gospel by the Rev. Jesse Higgins, the music being rendered by the Ladies' volunteer choir of Grace Church. The Rev. Messrs. H. W. Foreman, E. H. Coley, J. W. Clarke and J. J. Burd were also present and joined in the laying on of hands. Mr. Metcalf will continue his work at Copenhagen and Champion.
The Clergy of the Church in Utica have been recently tried by the brief, but clever and successful efforts of an impostor. The man called himself the Rev. P. Burton Peabody, whose name is in the Church Almanac as residing at Blue Rapids, Kan- sas, though he said that he really belonged to the Missionary District of Laramie, under Bishop Anson R. Graves, and he showed to Bishop Olmsted a letter purport- ing to be from Bishop Graves. Having reason to suspect him, however, Bishop Olmsted wrote to the Bishop of Kansas to ask if the Rev. Mr. Peabody. was away from home, and received a tele- gram in reply saying that he was not, and that it would be well to follow up the man who was impersonating him. The matter was then turned over to the police, because the impostor had been running up bills in the shops, and the result was that he was arrested, brought to trial, pleaded guilty, and was condemned to hard work in the Oneida County jail for six months. This was fortunate, for it was afterwards ascer tained that the letter from Bishop Grave; was a forgery, that the man was known to him as a fraud, and that his real name is Richard R. Ellison, the same, no doubt, of whom a warning has appeared in Church papers from Mr. John W. Wood in behalf of the Bishop of Honolulu.
The man is of medium height, very dark
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complexion, has dreamy, liquid black eyes, and a quiet, unassuming manner, which is very deceptive. It is more than likely that when he is released from jail he may begin his evil ways again, and it is well that the people of the Church should be on their guard against him.
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PERSONALS.
The Rev. Luther L. Weller has been appointed to minister in the parishes of Fayetteville and Jamesville.
The Rev. I. M. Merlinjones has taken charge of Emmanuel Church, East Syra- cuse, in connection with St. John's Church, Syracuse.
The Rev. Walter E. Jones has given up work at Emmanuel Church, East Syracuse, and will officiate at St. John's Mission, Phoenix, in connection with Calvary Church, Syracuse.
The. Rev. Wm. C. White has entered upon his duties as Rector of St. Mark's Church, Clark's Mills and Gethsemane Church, Westmoreland.
GENERAL NEWS.
The Brotherhood Convention at Washing- ton, D. C.
At the International Convention of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew, to meet in Washington, D. C., September 25th to 29th, one of the principal features will be the great open air mass meeting to be held on Sunday afternoon of the Convention at Mt. St. Alban, on the Cathedral enclosure of St. Peter and St. Paul, at which the principal speaker will be the Right Rev. A. F. Winington-Ingram, D.D., Lord Bishop of London. The provisional pro- gramme, which has recently been pub- lished in St. Andrew's Cross, also provides for a large mass meeting every night dur- ing the Convention and also every morn- ing, except Sunday, for a meeting for prayer, a feature not heretofore tried at Brotherhood Conventions, and which will
be led successively by Bishop Tuttle, the presiding bishop of the American Church, the Right Rev. Edgar Jacob, D.D., Bishop of St. Alban's, England; the Most Rev. Enos Nuttall, D.D., Archbishop of the West Indies; Bishop Anderson, of Chicago, and Mr. James L. Honghteling, the founder of the Brotherhood. The com- mittees at Washington are making every · effort to secure the attendance of the deputies to the General Convention, which will be held at Richmond immediately following the Brotherhood Convention. The majority of the passenger associations have granted an extension .on all tickets to October 26, thus enabling those expecting to go to Richmond, to purchase the tickets on sale for the Brotherhood Convention, or securing General Convention tickets direct to Richmond, with stop-over privilege at Washington, which has been granted by all roads where tickets are sold via Washington.
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SECOND DISTRICT.
The 118th meeting of the Convocation of the Second Missionary District was held at St. Andrew's Church, Utica, on Tues- day, June 25th. Luncheon was served at 1 p. m. by the ladies of the parish. The Convocation met for business in the new Church at 2:30 p. m., the Rev. E. H. Coley, Dean, presiding. The Bishop of the Diocese was present, and conducted the opening and closing prayers. The other Clergy present were: The Rev. Drs. Egar and Harding, and the Rev. Messrs. Byron-Curtiss, Wicks, Parker, Bentley, Smith, Stafford, Doolittle. Ashley. Wads- worth, Staunton, Schrader, Foreman. Burd, Masse, Higgins, Clarke, Murray.
The Rev. J. Winslow Clarke, having announced his intention to decline a further nomination as Secretary, the Rev. Jesse Higgins, Rector of St. George's Church, Utica, was elected Secretary. The following officers were re-elected: Mr. J. Francis Day, Treasurer: the Rev. W. R. MeKim and Mr. J. F. Day, members of the Board of Managers; the Rev. Messrs.
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Burd and Byron-Curtiss, Committee on Accounts.
The Dean announced that the $185.00 additional, apportioned to the Second Dis- trict on account of the Archdeacon's salary, had been provided for by special subscrip- tions through several Rectors, thus reliev- ing the other parishes and missions from any additional assessment during the present year. The Committee on Assess- ments and Appropriations for the current year reported Assessments of $3,100.00, and Appropriations, $2,365.00.
The Secretary was directed to prepare a suitable minute to be sent to the Rev. J. Winslow Clarke, the retiring Secretary, expressing the Convocation's appreciation of his faithful services for eight years last past.
After voting thanks to the Rector and parishioners of St. Andrew's for their hospitality the Convocation adjourned.
JESSE HIGGINS, Secretary.
THIRD DISTRICT.
The Convocation of the Third District met at St. Peter's Church, Bainbridge, Monday and Tuesday, April 30, May 1st. Evening Prayer was read at 7:30 Monday by the Rev. A. R. B. Hegeman and the Rev. C. D. Broughton.
Canon E. H. Schlueter of the Cathedral, Albany, preached an inspiring sermon.
The services of Tuesday were an early celebration, Rev. J. Malcolm Smith officiating; a second administration of Holy Communion at 10:30, when the Dean, Rev. H. S. Longley, was celebrant, assisted by the Archdeacon and the Rev. R. M. Duff, D.D. The Rev. J. Malcolm Smith preached from the words of the Gospel for the day, "I have many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now."
Luncheon was served at one o'clock to the Clergy and delegates of the W. A.
Business sessions of both bodies were held immediately after lunch.
W. E. TANNER, Secretary.
The Parsons' Club of the Third Dis- trict were entertained at Bainbridge, Mon-
day, April 30th. The essayist was the Rev. Harold E. Ford, of Christ Church, Binghamton, who presented an able paper on the Six Points of Ritual.
FOURTH DISTRICT.
The spring meeting of the Fourth Dis- trict Convocation was held in Christ Christ Church, Oswego, the Rev. Rich- mond H. Gesner, Rector, on May 7th and 8th
The first service was Evening Prayer on Tuesday at eight o'clock, read by the Rev. Messrs. W. W. Raymond and A. A. Jaynes. After a short introductory ad- dress by the Dean, the Rev. William DeLancey Wilson, S.T.D., addresses were made by the Rev. John T. Rose and the Archdeacon of the Diocese on the Mission- ary Thank Offering.
On Wednesday morning the Fourth Dis- trict Branch of the Woman's Auxiliary met with Convocation. At ten o'clock there was a celebration of the Holy Com- munion, the Rector of the parish being the celebrant. He was assisted by the Arch- deacon and the Dean. At eleven o'clock a business session was held in the chapel. Owing to the removal from the Diocese of the former secretary, the Rev. A. A. Jaynes was appointed to take his place pro tem, and afterward elected to fill that office. The treasurer of the District, Mr. Charles H. Behm, read his report. As this was based, as regards the amounts re- quired from the different Churches, on an apportionment made before the Arch- deacon's salary was raised by subscription, it was voted after some discussion to have it changed to correspond to the smaller sums actually expected from the parishes. After the transaction of some routine busi- ness, recess was taken at twelve o'clock for luncheon, which was served by the women of the Church in the Parish House.
At two o'clock the Convocation re- assembled and listened to a most interest- ing and scholarly paper by the Rev. Frank N. Westcott on "Christian Science." After a discussion by many of those present on the subject of the essay, Mr. W.
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D. Rogers, a postulant for Holy Orders ing
All the officers were re-elected except charge of St. Philip's Church, Syracuse, Mrs. H. HI. S. Handy, Junior Superin- under the direction of the Rev. II. G. tendent, who had been obliged to resign. Miss Marion Manning, Syracuse, was elected in her place. Coddington, D.D., was given the privilege f the floor and spoke in behalf of his vork among the colored people of Syra- use. After passing resolutions thanking he Rector and women of Christ Church for their generous hospitality, the Convoca- ion then adjourned.
The following clergymen were present : The Archdeacon ; the Rev. Wm. DeLancy Vilson, S.T.D., Dean; and the Rev. Doctors H. G. Coddington and I. M. Mer- injones, and the Rev. Messrs. R. H. Ges- er, A. H. Grant, E. B. Mott, W. S. Hay- vard, C. W. Hakes, M.D., J. T. Rose, T, Stafford, H. S. Sizer, J. O. Ward, F. Vestcott and A. A. Jaynes.
A. A. JAYNES, Secretary.
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The annual meeting of the Fourth Dis- rict Branch of the Woman's Auxiliary ras held May 9th in Christ Church, Os- ego.
The Holy Communion was celebrated t 10 a. m.
This service was followed by a very elightful and instructive address by Miss lark on mision work in Hankow, China.
Luncheon was served in the new Parislı Iouse, after which the large number of elegates convened for the business meet- ng, which was opened with prayer by the Rector, the Rev. R. H. Gesner.
After the reading of the annual reports y Mrs. R. II. Gesner, Secretary, nd Mrs. George L. Cliff, Treasurer, usiness was suspended while Mr. W. D. Rogers, Lay Reader at St. Philips, syracuse, presented the needs of that mis- on. His remarks were very forcible and nvincing. A motion was carried devot- ig $25.00 from the District Treasury to t. Philip's and individual branches added ibscriptions for the same object, making he whole sum nearly $40.00.
Pledges for the coming year were in- reased $20.00.
This necessary change is the more deeply regretted by all because of the very successful work done by Mrs. Handy dur- ing her two years of office.
Much enthusiasm has been aroused, many branches have been added, and the report for the year ending May, 1907, shows an increase in money and value of boxes of over $200.
After a cordial vote of thanks to the ladies of Christ Church for their gener- ous hospitality, the meeting adjourned.
MARY J. JACKSON, President.
The annual meeting of the Woman's Auxiliary of the Fifth District was held Wednesday, April 24th, in St. Stephen's Church, Romulus. The sermon at the eleven o'clock service was by the Rev. William Bours Clarke, Dean of the Dis- trict. Rev. Mr. MacNish, of Willard : Rev. Mr. Hubbard, of Waterloo ; and Rev. Mr. Idle, Rector of the parish were present. Fifty members of the society answered to the roll call at the afternoon meeting, com- ing from Auburn, Seneca Falls, Waterloo, Kidders and Kendaia. The usual routine of business was followed by the election of senior and junior officers, with the result as follows: President, Mrs. F. M. Hyatt, of Auburn ; vice president, Miss Drake, of Kidders: secretary and treasurer. Mrs. Edward White, of Auburn. Mrs. Henry Hubbard, of Waterloo, president of the Juniors, and Mrs. Ilenry Tripp, of Auburn, Directress of the Little Helpers. The interesting and instructive address by Mrs. Irish, the Diocesan President, was listened to with close attention by all. 1 rising vote of thanks was given Miss Auna Wadsworth, the retiring Superintendent of the Juniors, for her faithful and sue- cessful work of the past two years. The meeting was one of the largest and most enthusiastic ever held in the Distriet. Much credit is due to the branch in
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