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The first Episcopal service held in Onon- daga County appears to have taken place at the house of David Hibbard, Pompey, about 1795. The officiating clergyman was the Rev. Daniel Nash, known in the later years of his life as "Father Nash," but styled since his death the "Apostle of Otsego." Nash was the original "Mr. Grant," the clergyman in Cooper's novel of "The Pioneers." He died as late as 1836. He also visited Onondaga Valley in the early days of its settlement. Subse- quently the Rev. Philander Chase, after-
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wards the eminent Bishop of Ohio, journeyed in the Onondaga region, but vithout stopping at any point between Utica and Auburn. This was in 1798. In is "Reminiscences," published in 1848, Bishop Chase says: ""In passing through Onondaga County the writer remembers hat the places which are now occupied by hose flourishing and busy villages, Salina und Syracuse, were but one dreary salt marsh. Except two or three cabins for oiling salt-most unsightly and uncom- ortable because tenanted only in the vinter-there was no appearance of ivilized man."
The real apostle of Onondaga, however, vas the Rev. Davenport Phelps. He was born in Connecticut in 1775, and was the nephew of Dr. Eleazer Williams, President of Dartmouth College. After graduating t Yale he engaged for a considerable period in secular pursuits, but finally be- 'amne a convert to the Episcopal Church, nd ultimately took Orders. He was the first egularly appointed missionary to Western New York. He took up his residnce at Onondaga Hill in July, 1804, where he remained until the winter of 1807, when le removed with his family to Geneva. In his report to the Convention of the Diocese of New York in 1806 he states that "Since entering upon the mission in those counties ix churches have been organized, namely, one at Manlius, styled St. Paul's, consist- ng of Episcopalians in that town, and Pompey, one in Onondaga, styled St. John's, of about eighteen or twenty Families cach. These two Churches are n the County of Onondaga." St. John's Church, at Onondaga Hill, here alluded to, vas the earliest Episopal organization in he country, it having been formed on the 27th of November, 1803. The Church in Manlius was organized in 1804. Phelps lied, greatly regretted, at Geneva, on the 27th of June, 1813.
As far as we can learn the first Epis- opal visitation of Onondaga County occurred in 1815. In August of that year he celebrated Bishop of New York, John Henry Hobart, was at Manlius, the Church
of which place would seem at that time to have abandoned the name of St. Paul, which it had assumed at its original organ- ization by Phelps. Bishop Hobart, in his address to the Convention, notices his visit as follows: "At my visitation of the con- gregation at Manlius the Church in that village, which is a very neat and com- modious building, was conserated by the name of Christ Church, and forty-four persons were confirmed. The congregation is increasing and owes much to the labor of the Rev. William A. Clarke." Bishop Hobart's next visit to "Manlius and Onon- daga West Hill" was in September, 1818, and he was at the same places twice in the year 1821.
The first Episcopal service in what was then the village of Syracuse, was held in the winter of 1821-22, at which time the Rev. Lucius Smith officiated and preached in the parlor of the Syracuse House, which was kept by Mr. James Mann, whose wife was a communicant member of the Church. In 1822 services were occasianally held by clergymen from places in the vicinity. The Rev. Milton Wilcox, "Missionary at Onondaga, Onondaga County, and parts adjacent," in his report made to the Diocesan Convention of 1822, says : "In ad- dition to this I have performed occasional services, some more and some less, at Man- lius, Salina, Syracuse, Geddis, (so spelt) Otisco, Marcellus, Jamesville, Ithaca and Canandaigua." The Rev. William J. Bulkley, of Manlius, officiated twice at Syracuse in 1824. In October of that year, a society of Episcopalians was organ- ized in Syracuse, and in December eleven hundred dollars were subscribed for the erection of a Church edifice. The Rov. Augustus L. Converse was at the head of this Church, and he wrote to the Conven- tion of 1825, as follows: "The prospects of the recently organized Church at Svra- euse, are at present highly flattering. Its supporters compose a very respectable and tolerably large portion of that community. Her services are well and generally at- tended, and the attachment to them appears to be strong. This attachment is in no
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small degree evinced by the zealous and liberal exertions already made, and still making for the erection and completion of a Church." This Church was old St. Paul's, a wooden edifice which stood on the Granger Block site-the lot having
been presented by the Syracuse Company. The frame was raised in the autumn of 1825, but the building was not completed until two years later. Its size was origin- ally 41 by 52 feet. When the present St. Paul's was built the wooden Church was sold to the Catholics, by whom it was removed to Montgomery Street, where it now stands and is known as St. Mary's. There seems to have been some technical irregularity about the formation of the Society of 1824, for a formal re-organiza- tion took place on the 22d of May, 1826, from which St. Paul's Church dates its existence. Its Church edifice was conse- crated by Bishop Hobart on the 19th of September, 1827. This was, however, not the first visit of that eminent prelate to Syracuse. He was here and officiated at a service held on the afternoon of Septem- ber 6th, 1826, administering the rite of confirmation. He had been at Onondaga Hill in the morning of the same day, that village being still regarded, both on account of its greater age, and from the fact of its being the county seat, as of greater import- ance than Syracuse. Not long after its organization .St. Paul's suffered consider- ably by the suspension of its pastor from the ministry, and the edifice was for some time closed. It was not till 1830 that the Church began to be at all prosperous. We must not forget to say something of the Rev. Lucius Smith, whose name we have just mentioned as the earliest Episcopal preacher in Syracuse. He was a native of Connecticut, and was in 1822 Rector of St. Peter's, Auburn. He subse- quently became Rector of a Church at Batavia, where he continued for many years, and finally terminated his long career as a missionary at Fredonia, Chau- tauqua County. Among the others who
officiated at Syracuse in the days when the town was a mere hamlet, was the Rev. William B. Thomas, of Fishkill.
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HISTORY OF ST. PETER'S PARISH, ORISKANY,
(Subject of Illustration.)
This parish was organized in 1830 in the month of May, service being held every other Sunday by the Rev. Marcus A. Perry, who also officiated at Holland Patent. The services were at first held in the school-house. A subscription of $1,500 and a building lot were obtained, also a lot for a burying ground. During this year the Holy Communion was cele- brated once. Among the communicants in 1832 appear the names of Samuel Dexter, John Wharram, and A. S. Johnson. In the year 1833 the Church was built and consecrated. In the following year, 1834, the Rev. George Fiske succeeded Mr. Perry. He had charge of Rome and Oriskany. The number of communicants this year was 48, of baptisms 21. There was an increase of 22 in the list of com- municants over that in 1832. Being sick in 1836 Mr. Fiske secured the services of the. Rev. Messrs. Latham and Thomas Clarke, and in April of the following year his place was taken by the Rev. Stephen McHugh. He officiated twice on Sunday and also at Holland Patent. In the special Convention of the Diocese of New York, held in Utica, in 1838, the following were lay delegates from this parish : John Barber, Charles Green, John Wharran, Robert Lindsley.
Mr. McHugh mentions in his report the next year, 1839, having held services at Hampton and having had an oer of a lot for a Church. He mentions also the hard times and how they had affected a factory village like Oriskany. Yet the ladies were raising money for liquidating a debt. In 1841 the offerings amounted to one hun- dred and thirteen dollars. In the follow- ing year, 1842, Mr. McHugh became mis- sionary for Hampton and this parish, re-
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moving from Holland Patent in May. IIc speaks in his report of having started services at Clinton.
In this year the Rev. Benjamin Whitcher took charge, and in the following year speaks of having held services in Whitesboro. In 1847 the parish was with- out a clergyman, and the report was made by the wardens. The Rev. O. H. Staples was here for a short time leaving in May of the year 1848. The Rev. William A. Matson then came, holding services also at Whitesboro and was succeeded at Easter, 1851, by the Rev. Erastus Spalding. In 1864 the Rev. . Henry Neely, the late Bishop of Maine, had charge. During this year the factories were stopped. In 1855 the Rev. William Baker came and presented the following as the report for the twenty-fifth year of the parish: Com- municants, 29; Confirmations, 2; Bap- tisms, 3; individuals, 153; Sunday School teachers, 6; Sunday School scholars, 60, Offerings, $45.60.
He was followed by the Rev. Jacob S. Shipman, afterwards Rector of Christ Church, New York City. In 1860 the Rev. Henry Stanley became Rector, and in 1865 the Rev. Henry Darby. He was followed by the Rev. William T. Gibson. D.D. In 1873, at Easter, the Rev. Alex- ander H. Rogers entered on the Rectorship. and was succeeded on the first of February, 1875, by the Rev. William Trish. He was succeeded by the Rev. Wilfred H. Dean, who officiated until January 1st, 1877. The Rev. Robert L. Mattison became Rector on May 20th, 1877, and continued until the following year. The Rev. T. Scudder became Rector on the 30th of November, 1578. At a meeting of the Vestry March 21st, 1880, it was resolved to reduce the number of vestrymen to five. This was acted upon in the way prescribed " by the laws of the State, and recorded in the County Clerk's office in Book B., Religious Societies, page 342.
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THE GOSPEL MESSENGER. TREASURER'S REPORT. The Treasurer acknowledges the receipt of the following sums during the month of July 1907, 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,
$. . .. $
$
$
$
$
$
$
$ $ 2.51 $ $
Afton,
2.25
Alexandria Bay,
3.86
Altmar,
17.05
Antwerp,
Auburn, St. John's,
10.00
St. Peter's,
83.60
Augusta,
1.00
Aurora,
40.00
4.68
Bainbridge,
Baldwinsville,
Big Flats,
5.15 2.28
Binghamt'n, ChristCh. " Good Shepherd Trinity
Boonville,
4.17
Bridgewater,
Brookfield,
Brownville,
2.86
Camden,
Canastota,
Candor,
Cape Vincent,
23.13 4.95
3.00
Carthage,
Cayuga,
98
Cazenovia,
38,78
Champion,
1.80
Chenango Forks,
Chittenango,
Chadwicks,
Clark's Mills,
Clayton,
14 13
Clayville
Cleveland,
6.25 3.00
Clinton,
Constableville,
Copenhagen,
6.10
1.00
Cortland,
Deerfield,
Dexter,
4.35
Dey's Landing,
Dryden,
1.00
Durhamville,
Earlville,
East Onondaga,
Ellisburg,
.10
Elmira, Emmanuel, =
=
Grace, Trinity,
Evan's Mills,
1.26 1.89
Fayetteville,
Forestport,
Frederick's Corners, Fulton,
6 86
Glen Park,
1 83
Great Bend,
6 07
Greene,
15.00
Greig,
Guilford,
7 50
Hamilton,
7 25
Harpursville,
Hayt's Corners,
.50
. .
. .
.
. .
. . ยท
25.00
Fund.
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Diocesan Missions.
Diocesan
Expense
Fund.
Domestic
Missions.
Foreign
Missions.
General
Missions.
Missions. Deaf Mute
Christmas
Fund.
General Clergy
Relief Fund.
Church
Building Fund.
Ministerial
Education
Fund.
Colored
Missions.
Relief Fund of
the Diocees
Ovid
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
Holland Patent,.
Homer,
Horseheads,
Ithaca,
21.36
Jamesville,
5.50
Jordan,
1.75
Kiddders Ferry,
1.00
Kings Ferry
Lacona,
1 47
LaFargeville,
2.33
Lowville,
Manlius,
9.05 .50
6.44
Marcellus,
McDonough,
1.33
Memphis,
Mexico,
1.10
Millport,
Moravia,
Mount Upton,
New Berlin,
30 00
New Hartford,
New York Mills,
Northville,
4.03
2.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
Norwich,
16.03
Onondaga Castle,
Oriskany,
Oriskany Falls,
Oswego, Christ Ch ... 66 Evangelists,
7.30
3.06
Oxford,
15.66
Paris Hill,
4.68
Phoenix,
.40
Pierrepont Manor,
Port Byron,
Port Leyden,
3.70
Redfield,
3.75
Redwood,
5.46
Rome, Zion,
6.00
Romulus,
Sackett's Harbor,
13.32
Seneca Falls,
19.63
Sherburne,
18 82
Skaneateles,
42.08
35.76
Slaterville,
Smithboro,
1.00
Speedsville,
5.00
Spencer,
Syracuse. All Saints,
Calvary,
14.75
" Ch. of Saviour, Grace,
St. John's,
St. Luke's,
St. Mark's, St. Paul's, St. Philips,
56.22
22.87
Trinity,
E. Emmanuel,
2.00
Theresa,
7.20,
37.15
Oneida,
10.89
2.00
Owego,
5.56
McLean,
1.43
Pulaski,
St. Joseph's,
5.57
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Diocesan Missions.
Diocesan
Expense
Fund.
Domestic
Missions.
Foreign
Missions.
General
Missions.
Deaf Mute
Missions.
Christmas
Fund.
General Clergy
Relief Fund.
Building Fund.
Ministerial
Education
Colored
Missions.
Relief Fund of
the Diocese
Trenton,
$ 3.00 $ $
Trumansburg,
Union Springs, 3.79
Utica, Calvary, 12.26
Grace, Holy Cross,
St. Andrew's,
St. George's,
St. Luke's,
Trinity, 10.93
Van Etten,
Warner,
Waterloo,
Watertown, Trinity,
48.44 86.04
"
. St. Paul's,. Redeemer, 5.11 2.04
Waterville,
Waverly,
Weedsport,
Wellsburg,
Westmoreland,
Whitesboro,
Whitney's Point, 1.50
Willard, 4.00
Willowdale,
1.75
Windsor,
Convocation, 1st Dist.
2d Dist.
3d Dist.
4th Dist.
5th Dist.
6th Dist.
Diocesan Convention.' 42.94
RECAPITULATION.
Diocesan Missions
$ 669 53
Diocesan Expense Fund
297 83
Domestic Missions 22 87
Foreign Missions
1 00
General Missions
42 20
Deaf Mute Missions
3 00
General Clergy Relief Fund
1 00
Ministerial Education Fund
3 51
Miscellaneous.
Bank interest
$ 13 69
Permanent Missionary Fundy 500 00
Caroline Stacey Fund
12 50
E. D. Babcock Fund
50 79
Mary W. Stacey Fund
6 60
Charlotte A. Truman Fund
7 71
Income Episcopate Fund
1,125 00
C. N. Y. B. & P. B. Soc-Emmanuel, Adams
2 32
New York B. & P. B. Society-
Calvary, Northville .
1 00
Men's Thank Offering-St. John's, Cape Vincent
31 25
Jews: Calvary, Northville
1 00
Education, Indian Girl:
St. John's,
Cape Vincent
5 00
$2,797 80
FRANK L. LYMAN, Treasurer, 108 Pearl Street, Syracuse.
Church
$
$
$
.
.
Fund.
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3-Sunday, A. M., Norwich.
3-Sunday, Evening, Hamilton.
10-Sunday, A. M., Fayetteville.
10-Sunday, P. M., Jamesville.
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MISSIONARY RALLY.
It is proposed to have one or two Mis- sionary Rallies in this Diocese after the General Convention, and we hope the Clergy and people will do their utmost to make them successful. If the proper speakers can be secured, we should suggest that they be held in Grace Church, Utica, and St. Paul's, Syracuse, and that as many of the surrounding parishes as possible
should take part, filling those large Churches to their farthest corners. We very much need a kindling of enthusiasm on the subject of Church extension-and if the Rectors or Lay Deputies from Watertown and Binghamton, or from the other cities of the Diocese, can get the speakers to go to them for the same pur- pose, so much the better. We have been sadly deficient as a Diocese, brethren, in meeting our apportionment-do let us try for a better showing another year. Please be ready for such arrangements for meet- ings as may be made during the Conven- tion.
In our May number we called attention to the occasional intrusions of Clergymen into the parishes of others, and quoted from a complaint on the subject which had reached us a short time before. Very recently another such complaint, still more indignant, has been received referring to the conducting of various services within the cures of other priests, and particularly insisting on the injustice of the custom in the case of marriages, when the intruding minister not only has the honor attaching to the service, but also pockets the fee.
In our opinion, while emphasizing the necessity of courtesy and of obedience to Canon law in the matter, it is not well for the Clergy to be too stringent in refusing to admit their brethren to ministrations within their jurisdictions, when it is asked as a favor by either party to the service. There are many associations with former Rectors which families like to maintain, and a Minister does not gain anything by
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appearing to be too selfish about it. But at the same time it is very true that the custom, if constantly maintained, becomes unchurchly, and certainly does inter- fere with the cementing of the pastoral relations of the new Rector, keeping him always in the position of a stranger to his people. It is also part and parcel of the tendency to make little of the Church and much of the person of the Minister, which is so predominant in these days, and mani- fests itself in certain more pronounced forms sometimes, such as making regular Church attendance dependent on the par- ticular Minister who is to officiate. This is a tendency which the better judgment of earnest Christian people will not approve, we are quite sure, if they seriously con- sider the logical results of it; and they will see that it is best to check it in its begin- nings. And at all events, with regard to marriage services, to which a fee is usually attached, it would seem right that the Minister of the parish should at least have a share of it, if not indeed the whole of it. Sometimes it is customary for the bride- groom himself to give a fee to both.
Some years ago we heard of a case in which the Bishop of the Diocese and the Rector of the parish were both invited to officiate at a marriage. The Bishop asked the Rector beforehand what part he would take, and the Rector replied, opening the Prayer Book at the service, "I will take from here down to here," that is from the beginning down to the benediction. The Bishop pronounced the blessing !
The above article on clerical intrusions was prepared for insertion two months ago, but has been crowded out by other matter until now. And as time goes on the case seems to grow worse. There have been during the summer just passed sev- eral inexcusable breaches of the Canon in this matter, of a very flagrant character, and it has come to such a pass that the Bishop of this Diocese wishes to give no- tice to Clergymen, both within and with- out the Diocese, that he will take steps to have the men, who offend in this way here-
after, brought to trial for misconduct. The habit is becoming scandalous, and it is nec- essary to put a stop to it.
It will be well for the lay people, also, to consider this matter, and refrain from asking Clergymen to do things that will bring them into trouble. As we have said above, we appreciate the sentiment which leads them to ask others besides their own Rectors to officiate in their families; but there is justice in all things, and sentiment must not ride over it rough shod.
STUDIES IN THE PRAYER BOOK.
The Anglican Church has been ridi- culed, even by some of her own children. for attempting to find and to follow the "Via Media." It is not worth while for us to attempt to thresh out again that wel. threshed subject; but the facts remain. that to many minds the truth of Holy Scripture seems to follow that middle course between the two extremes, and that the Church of the English Reformation represents, or at least satisfies, such minds The Book of Common Prayer is the ex pression of the via media in the doctrine discipline and worship of the Christian Church. We have found it time and again in these "studies" which we are pur suing, and now we come upon it once more in the matter of the character and purpose of the Holy Eucharist. Last month, ir endeavoring to answer the question of ond of our Clergy on the subject, we spoke o: the Eucharist as a Communion, a feast to be participated in by people as well a: priest; and emphasized the fact that the Prayer Book requires communicants a every celebration. This was the feature o phase of the sacred rite which the Church in England found it necessary to make emphatic in the sixteenth century, because it had become obscured during the preced ing ages. But now, behold how exagger ated that feature has become during the ages that have intervened since that time With many people now it is Communion and nothing but Communion, and sinc they are not prepared, or do not desire, t communicate very often, certainly no
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every Sunday, the service has been discon- tinued as the great act of Christian wor- ship every Lord's day, and is to be had only once in three months, or at most once a month, on that modern holy day the "First Sunday." We do not find that day noted in the Calendar, nor does the Prayer Book anywhere suggest such an arrange- ment. Following the custom of the Chris- tian ages, from the time when we are told that "the disciples came together on the first day of the week"-not the first Sun- day of the month-"to break the Bread," down to the day when the Prayer Book was first set forth in English, it makes pro- vision for the Eucharistic feast on every Lord's day. Indeed, permission is given for every day if it is desired, but each Sunday has its special prayer and read- ings from Scripture and its own peculiar teaching. It is true that there is authority for the omission of the celebration, and having only the "Ante-Communion," as it is called; but this is only a discretionary rubric, making such a curtailed service al- lowable, while the complete form retains its place in the Prayer Book, and is at least suggested as proper for the perpetual use of the Church. And it is encouraging to observe that in recent years there has been a return to the primitive usage in a large number of our Churches; probably it is safe to say in the majority of them. Not, by any means, that the majority of our people have adopted the custom of at- tending that service every Sunday, but the Clergy, acting on the conviction that it is the service of divine institution and of churchly custom, have arranged for its celebration at an early hour on every Lord's day, still retaining the late celebra- tion only on the first Sunday of the month. And doubtless this is the best that can be done under the circumstances, until the people come to understand that the Holy Eucharist is a service of worship as well as of Communion, setting forth God's highest praise in the memorial of the Pas- sion of His Son-that weekly Communion is the ideal of the Christian man's devo- tion, as manifested in the custom of the
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