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12. First Sunday after the Epiphany.
19. Second Sunday after the Epiphany.
25. Conversion of St. Paul.
26. Third Sunday after the Epiphany.
BISHOP'S APPOINTMENTS.
January, 1908.
5 .- Sunday, A. M., Oriskany.
5 .- Sunday, P. M., New York Mills.
12-Sunday, A. M., Good Shepherd, Bingham- ton.
12-Sunday, P. M., Christ Church, Binghamton.
12-Sunday, Evening, Trinity, Binghamton.
13-Monday, Owego.
14-Tuesday, Whitney's Point.
19-Sunday, A. M., Oneida.
19-Sunday, P. M., Durhamville.
26-Sunday, A. M., Trinity, Utica.
February.
2 .- Sunday, A. M., Holy Cross, Utica.
2 .- Sunday Evening, St. George's, Utica.
9 .- Sunday, A. M., Trinity, Syracuse.
9 .- Sunday, Evening, Fulton.
16 .- Sunday, A. M., Grace, Syracuse.
16 .- Sunday, P. M., East Syracuse.
16 .- Sunday, Evening, All Saints', Syracuse.
23 .- Sunday, A. M., St. John's, Syracuse.
23 .- Sunday, Evening, Waterville.
March.
St. Paul's, Syracuse; St. Mark's, Syracuse; St. Peter's, Auburn; St. John's, Auburn; Seneca Falls; Waterloo; Ithaca; Greene;
Oxford; Chenango Forks; Christ Church, Oswego; Phoenix; St. Andrew's, Utica; Clinton,
THE GOSPEL MESSENGER brings to its readers and patrons the warmest greetings of the New Year. May it be to them and theirs both happy and prosperous in all material as well as spiritual things !
GENERAL MISSIONS.
We are informed by the Board that the contributions necessary to carry on the work laid out from December 1st, 1907, to September 1st, 1908, will be for-
Domestic Missions . $515,610.11 Foreign Missions 553,879.04
Total required to Sep-
tember, 1908, ..... $1,069,489.15
This seems a large sum, but we may remember that the apportionment for this Diocese is the same a's last year, $10,700.00, and that in most cases the amount asked from each parish and mis- sion will be the same. It is humiliating to have to acknowledge that we gave only about half that was expected of us, and there were a number of congregations which gave nothing at all. Do the people think that this is right? This matter is the responsibility of every member of the Church, because the work is undertaken and authorized by our representatives, we all have a share in sending the mission- aries, and of course we all ought to share in supporting them. Equally of course there would be little trouble in securing such support if all would work together in bearing the burden. It would make light work indeed if the many littles could be gathered from many to make the much that is needed.
SUNDAY SCHOOL RALLIES.
Referring to the report in another col- umn of the Missionary Rally of the Sun- day Schools in Utica, we would call the at-
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tention of the Clergy to the usefulness of such gatherings of the children, especially in cities where there are two or more par- ishes. It is not only to emphasize the mis- sionary idea in the minds of the children, for the purpose of increasing the offerings for that object, but also to eradicate from them the narrow notions of parochialism, to enlarge their views of the work of the Church, and let them see that theirs is not the only parish, nor the only Sunday School, but that there are multitudes of other people engaged in the same pursuit. Itwill increase their esprit du corps, and give them an understanding of what the Church really is better than any amount of abstract teaching can do. This is the day of "object lessons," and we must not neglect the use of them in the Sunday School, our only agency for imparting religious truths outside the family and the private day school.
STUDIES IN THE PRAYER BOOK.
With regard to the side of the Altar at which the celebration of the Holy Com- munion is to be begun, there has grown up adifference of use in recent years from that . opposite of our custom of having the from to which we were formerly accustomed. The Altar desk and book always used to stand at the Gospel side or end, and the service was begun there; a custom received without doubt from the English Church, in which the rubric directs the Priest to stand at the "north side;" which in build- ings that are properly orientated as they are almost invariably in England, neces- sarily means the side to the left of the man who faces the Altar, that is, the Gospel side. Indeed, as all our older people re- member, it was the method in the early and middle years of the last century to stand, not in front of the Altar at all, but around at the north end. But now in many of our Churches we find the Altar book at the other end, at the right of the priest as he faces it. Where is the authority for that change, and whence does it arise ? We suspect the real origin of it is a certain "other use,"which prevails in other parts of the Church Catholic-
but the reason sometimes given for it il that our American Prayer Book change the words "north side" of the Englis Book, to the "right side," and that tha means at the priest's right hand when fac ing the Holy Table. That sounds plausible but a little study of the matter shows tha it is a mistake; and that our America revisers were simply changing, not th place for beginning the service, but th word that describes it, doubtless becaus so many of our Churches are not orien ated, and the Gospel side is frequently the south, or perhaps at the west, and or people are not trained to think of th architectural points of the compass instea of the real ones. It so happens that Hol Scripture speaks of "the right side of th Altar of incense," in the account of th vision of Zacharias in the Temple, St Luke i. 11; and we learn from that learne Jewish Christian writer, Dr. A. Eder heim, author of "The Life and Times ( Jesus the Messiah," what side was mean It will be remembered that the Temple i Jerusalem faced the east and had the Ho. of Holies or sanctuary in the west, just tl
door of the Church at the west and tl sanctuary in the east. To one entering tl Temple, therefore, the north was at h right and the south at his left hand. No it happens that Edersheim had reason f calling particular attention to the side the Altar on which the Angel Gabriel stoo when Zacharias saw him. He says: "TJ celebrant Priest, bearing the golden cense stood alone within the Holy Place-befo him was the golden altar of incense which the red coals glowed. To his rig (the left of the altar, that is, on the nor side) was the table of shew bread; to h left, on the right or south side of the alt was the golden candlestick." Again : "C the right (or south) side of the alta between it and the golden candlestic stood what he could not but recognize an angelic form." And still agai "Gabriel was regarded in tradition as i ferior to Michael; and though both wc connected with Israel, Gabriel was rep :-
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sented as chiefly the minister of justice, and Michael of mercy; while Gabriel was supposed to stand on the left, and not (as in the evangelic narrative) on the right side of the throne of glory. Small as these divergencies may seem, they are all im- portant when derivation of one set of opinions from another is in question." It is manifest, therefore, as this Jewish scholar shows, that in the ancient worship the altar was supposed to be a symbol of God's throne, and that His face, not His back, was towards the people, so that the right or the left side of the altar was determined by that fact. Doubtless our American revisers were scholarly enough to be aware of this, and consequently, when they wished to describe "the north side of the Holy Table" by some other word, they called it "the right side," and it seems needless to say that they were perfectly correct. As Edersheim inti- mates, these are matters too small to spend much time or thought upon; but it is just as well to understand what the facts in the case are, in order that so much of our con- duct in divine service as depends upon them be guided by knowledge.
In the Baptismal Service it is well that the Clergy, especially the new beginners in the ministry, should observe that the questions in the Baptism of Infants are "considered as addressed to the Sponsors severally," so that each one is expected to answer; and that they are with reference to each child severally, if there be more than one, and therefore that the children must not be considered collectively. It will be noticed that the word "this child," in the first question, is not printed in italics, as all the words are that it is allow- able to change on account of number or of gender. Consequently it is never correct to say, "Dost thou in the name of these children renounce the devil," &c.
The purpose of this is evident. It is to fix the responsibility for each individual child, and to emphasize the fact that each ne by himself and for himself is to be 'made a member of Christ, the Child of
God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven." That sacramental relationship is distinctly a personal one, and just as one does not undertake to graft new twigs into a vine or tree in bunches, but one by one, so the members of the Church are grafted into Christ, the True Vine, one by one.
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PAROCHIAL NOTES.
ST. MARK'S CHURCH, CLARKS MILLS .- The Rev. W. C. White, Rector. St. Mark's has recently installed a number of gifts and memorials. An altar-book and desk, in memory of Noah Ashley, for many years vestryman and senior warden of the parish; also a handsome oak pulpit in rememberance of the Reverened Oliver Owen, Rector from 1893 until his death last April, were blessed by the Bishop at his visitation on October 27th. Since then there has been added a lecturn, the gift of Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Copeland, a credence table and two altar vases in memory of the Reverend Russel Todd, first Rector of the parish. These articles of equipment, all of them tasteful, enhance the attractive- ness of an already pretty church. The people are showing a commendable activity, having also expended $150 for repairs and improvements to the rectory since July 1st. The recent confirmation class of 19 was the largest in the history of St. Mark's.
ST. LUKE'S CHURCH, HARPURSVILLE .- The Rev. Geo. H. Kirkland, Rector. St. Luke's has received, in addition to the contributions, acknowledged in last issue, from St. Andrew's, New Berlin. . $52.32 from Christ Church, Binghamton, 20.00
$72.32
CHURCH OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE, SYRACUSE .- The Rev. I. M. Merlinjones, Rector. On Monday evening, Decem- ber 2nd, a service of re-opening was held in the Church of St. John the Divine, Syracuse, which has recently undergone quite extensive repairs. The Bishop of the
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Diocese was present and preached the ser- mon, and several of the Clergy took part in the service, among whom were the Arch- deacon and the Rev. Messrs. Raymond, Heyne, Weller and Jones.
ONONDAGA INDIAN RESERVATION .- The Rev. W. S. Hayward, Missionary. The missionary and his household were again made glad by the unloading at their door a Christmas cheer in the shape of groceries and provisions from the Rector and good people of St. Mark's Church, Syracuse, all of which were fully appreciated.
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DIOCESAN.
ADVENT ORDINATIONS.
On Saturday, St. Thomas' day, at Calvary Church, Syracuse where he has passed his Diaconate, the Rev. Walter Emerson Jones was ordained to the Priest- hood by the Bishop of the Diocese. There were present in the Chancel in vestments the Archdeacon, who presented the candi- date, the Rev. W. DeL. Wilson, D.D., who read the epistle, the Rev. W. B. Clarke, who read the Gospel, and the Rev. Messrs. Raymond, Schwartz, Doolittle, Hyde, Merlinjones, Heyne and Weller; and all, except Mr. Weller, Deacon, took part in the laying on of hands. Morning Prayer was said at 9:30 o'clock by Dr. Merlinjones and Mr. Heyne, and the Ordination service began at eleven with a sermon by the Bishop. Mr. Jones is to remain at Calvary Church, where the work is progress- ing satisfactorily under his charge.
On the Fourth Sunday in Advent, Dec- ember 22nd, in St. Paul's Church, Water- loo, Mr. William Sutherland Stevens was ordered Deacon by the Bishop of the Diocese, in the presence of the Rev. H. E. Hubbard, Rector of the parish, the Rev. Messrs. W. B. Clarke, Jos. A. Leighton, and H. Idle, and a large congregation. Morning Prayer was said by the Rector at 9:30, and at 10:30 the Ordination services began with sermon by the Bishop.
The candidate was presented by the Rector. Dr. Leighton read the Epistle and the newly ordered Deacon took the Gospel as the Rubric requires. Mi Stevens will engage in mission work ij the Diocese as appointed by the Bishop.
The Sunday Schools of Utica and vicinity anticipated the usual time an( had their Missionary Rally on Adven Sunday instead of waiting for the Epiph any season. It was held in Grace Church and the building was packed to the door with the children and their teachers, fron the seven Churches in the city, with a few from St. John's, Whitesboro, and also fron St. Joseph's, Rome. There were seventy two children from the House of the Good Shepherd, who attend the Sunday Schoc at St. Andrew's Church. The Bishop o the Diocese was present and made th address, in which he urged the importanc of making the Sunday School as effectiv as possible in these days when no definit religious teaching is given in the publi schools; and also exhorted both teacher and scholars not to overlook the value of th Church Catechism as the foundation fo other more general and, perhaps, mor interesting instruction. The children ha all been taught the hymns for the occasion and they sang them with much spirit. Th service was under the charge of the Rev E. F. H. J. Masse, Rector of St. Luke' Church.
At the last meeting of the Convocatio of the Second District held in St. Stephen' Church, New Hartford, a resolution wa passed and a committee appointed t arrange for a missionary speaker in th district during December or January.
These arrangements are now completec and the Rev. George Wallace, D.D., o Tokyo, Japan, will be with us fror January 5th to the 13th inclusive.
The following are his appointments :
Jan. 5 .- Sunday, a. m., Holy Cross Utica.
Jan. 5 .- Sunday, p. m., St. Andrews Utica.
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Jan. 6 .- Monday, p. m., Boonville.
Jan. 7.> Tuesday, p. m., Oriskany Falls.
Jan. 8 .- Wednesday, p. m., Chad- vicks.
Jan. 9 .- Thursday, p. m., Clinton.
Jan. 10 .- Friday, p. m., Oneida.
Jan. 12 .- Sunday, a. m., Zion Church, Rome.
Jan. 12 .- Sunday, p. m., St. Joseph's Church, Rome.
Jan. 13 .- Monday, p. m., Waterville.
Dr. Wallace was at one time Rector of St. Paul's Church, Waterloo, N. Y., but has been a missionary in Japan for a num- ber of years.
His headquarters while in the district will be, "The Albert," 249 Genesee Street, Utica, to which all communications may be addressed.
The same committee has also arranged for a general missionary rally service of ill the Utica and neighborhood parishes in Grace Church, Utica, on Wednesday, February 5th, at 7:30 p. m.
The speaker on that occasion will be the Rev. Arthur S. Lloyd, D.D., General Sec- retary of the Board of Missions.
Dr. Lloyd has recently returned from a year's journey around the world, in which he had an opportunity to visit the Church's Missions in the Philippine Islands, China, Japan, and Honolulu. He will speak here on the results of his observations.
The following letter has been sent to the Clergy and to the treasurers of the parishes and Missionary Stations in the Diocese :
Utica, N. Y., December 12, 1907. Dear Brother-
At a meeting of the Executive Commit- ee of the Board of Managers of Diocesan Missions recently held in the city of Syra- cuse, it was decided to request the Clergy and the parochial Treasurers to make an arnest effort to remit to the Treasurer of he District, their offerings for Diocesan Missions, at least once in three months, so hat the Treasurer of the Diocese may receive them by the 25th of the month preceding each quarter day, that is to say,
the 25th of July, October, January and April.
The purpose of this request is the charit- able one of enabling the Missionaries to have their stipends in hand promptly on the first day of the quarter. And in the con- fident expectation that this loving request will be attended to, the Committee pro- ceeded still further along the same line of encouragement to the workers in the field, and adopted the following resolution, viz. :
"Resolved, That the Committee to whose charge was committed the sending out of a letter in regard to offerings for Diocesan Missions be requested to incor- porate in such letter information to the effect, that if such request is complied with, it is the sense of this Committee that we make a move to have Canon X of the Diocese amended, so that payments to the Missionaries can be made monthly instead of quarterly."
Trusting that we are not asking more of the brethren than they all will be entirely willing to comply with, we remain,
Faithfully yours in Christ,
CHARLES TYLER OLMSTED, WILLIAM COOKE, THOMAS DUCK, EDWARD H. COLEY,
HARRY S. LONGLEY,
WILLIAM DEL. WILSON,
WILLIAM B. CLARKE,
NORMAN S. BOARDMAN.
SHELTER FOR UNPROTECTED GIRLS, SYRACUSE.
The Treasurer of the Shelter for Un- protected Girls gives the receipts from October 1, 1906, to October 1, 1907, as $7,582.21; Expenditure, $7,373.36.
There have been in all ninety inmates during the year. Of those received thirty- one were under sixteen years of age and eleven under eighteen. Six were sent by parents or guardians, three by Poor Law Officers, thirty-five by Judicial Commit- ment, five were held as witnesses in cases of criminal prosecution, one entered voluntarily.
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Twelve have been placed in good situa- tions, fifteen returned to parents or guardians, eleven transferred to other institutions, two sent out of the State; leaving a total of fifty, twenty in Faith Cottage and thirty in Hope Cottage.
The Shelter was inspected by the State Board of Charities in September and con- tinued in Class I, which signifies practi- cally no defects. Among improvements noted in this official report is a teacher from the public schools, who has charge of evening classes for the older girls who are trained in domestic work during the day. This gives excellent results, and both there and in the day school for the children in Faith Cottage the pupils do credit to their instruction. The walls of the lower stories have been varnished by the girls whose general work, clothing, health and dietary are favorably noticed, as well as the practice in physical culture and out-of-door recreation.
A record is kept of conduct, on which the parole system is based, those thus placed out reporting regularly to the Superintendent.
Rev. W. W. Raymond is the Chaplain of the Shelter, visiting the house for classes during the month and celebrating the Holy Eucharist at the Great Feasts. Sunday morning services are maintained by members of St. Andrew's Brotherhood from the Syracuse parishes.
Gifts from outside Syracuse are acknowledged as follows:
In money from friends in New York City, Baltimore, Pierrepont Manor, Waterville, Utica, Atlantic City, Boston, Marcellus, Chittenango.
In clothing and food from the parishes of St. Paul's, Waterloo, and St. John's, Marcellus.
In boxes of clothing and bedding from Branches of the Woman's Auxiliary at the Church of the Holy Cross, Utica; Christ Church, Jordan; St. Paul's, Waterloo; Trinity, Fayetteville; Christ Church, Guilford; St. Thomas, Hamilton; St. James', Theresa; St. Peter's, Redwood; Christ Church, Sackett's Harbor; St.
Stephen's, Romulus ; St. John's, Marce lus ; St. Peter's, Auburn.
From the Junior Auxiliary at S George's, Utica.
From the Ladies' Aid Society, Gra Church, Utica; the Ladies' Benevolen Association, Christ Church, Manlius; S Faith's Guild, Grace Church, Willow dale; St. Mark's Guild, Port Leyden; S Agnes' Guild, Trinity Church, Sened Falls; and clothing and food fro: individuals in several of the parishes mer tioned.
Some delay in receiving the names ( donors of boxes has prevented acknowledg ments, and for such omissions the Superil tendent desires to apologize, expressing he most grateful thanks for the very substa tial aid extended.
These lines will be found helpful in in pressing upon the memory of children th succession of seasons in the Christian yea
Advent tells us Christ is near, Christmas tells us Christ is here; In Epiphany we trace All the glory of His grace. Those three Sundays before Lent Will prepare us to repent, That in Lent we may begin Earnestly to mourn for sin. Holy Week and Easter then Tell Who died and rose again. Oh ! that happy Easter day, Christ has risen again, we say. Yes, and Christ ascended, too, To prepare a place for you. So we give Him special praise Throughout those great forty days. Then He sent the Holy Ghost On the Day of Pentecost, With us ever to abide ; Well may we keep Whitsuntide. Last of all we humbly sing Glory to our God and King, Glory to the One in Three On the Feast of Trinity.
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The following Scriptural riddle is re- printed from the GOSPEL MESSENGER of forty years ago or more:
'We left our little ones at home, And whither went we did not know; We for the Church's sake did roam, And lost our lives in doing so. We went straight forward on the road, Walked with the wicked full in view; We lived to man, we died to God, Yet of religion nothing knew.
THE CHURCH ON THE FUTURE,
By the Bishop of London.
What are the characteristics of the Church whichi would possess the future ? What are the conditions under which alone he mustard seed which has grown so high already shall fill the world ?
(1) And first, undoubtedly, the future can only belong to a Church which believes ind preaches the forthreaching, energizing and active Love of God.
God forbid that I should deny the diffi- ulties which surround a belief in the love f God or ignore the stern side of the New Testament; every great light casts a hadow, and he is no true ambassador who belittles the shadow cast by the great Sun of the Love of God. To be out of the varmth of the Love of God is to be in the larkness, and how great is that darkness ho one painted more clearly than Jesus Christ Himself. But I have found in East London, and I am sure you have found in every quarter of this great conti- hent that it is the warmth of the Sun which makes the soul cast off the cloak of ts reserve, and not the terror of the dark- less.
And no Church will save the world and specially those thousand millions who ave not yet had a chance of making up their minds as to the truth of Christianity, xcept a Church that believes and pro- laims and lives out the love of God to very child that He has made.
(2) And with the gospel of the love of God must go, what we call in England, the message of a free salvation.
It may be that in the past we may have allowed a legalizing spirit to creep over the Church and therefore lost such great communities as the Wesleyans, because they thought the old bottles would not hold the new wine. But to-day, High Church and Low Church vie in England to preach a gospel of a free salvation.
It is easier, no doubt, to believe that Jesus Christ was only a good man, however difficult to reconcile with the New Testa- ment; it is more comfortable to believe that evil is an undeveloped form of good- that "the devil is a vacuum;" it is more intelligible to the human intellect to look upon the Atonement as the appeal of self- sacrifice to the selfishness of mankind ; but, while the human heart craves to know what God has done, while this so-called "un- developed form of good" is making havoc of our hearths and our homes, while there are sinners who long to know if they can be forgiven, the New Theology is no gospel which will win the world.
(3) But it may be said : "Every ortho- dox Christian community in the world preaches the gospel of the Love of God and of a free salvation"-in what sense are we justified to-day in the Anglican Communion in keeping our own organiza- tion separate from the great non-episcopal bodies on the one hand and the Roman Church on the other ?
We do not keep aloof from either in any spirit of un-brotherliness or pharasai- cal pride. We long to be one; we pray to be one; we honor and admire all that they have done for the cause of Christ.
We are bound to maintain in opposition to the great non-episcopal bodies that the historical ministry can not lightly be set aside in the Christian Church, that, just as every plant has lines of its own on which it develops, so the divine grain of mustard seed carries within itself the organization by which it was meant to spread through- out the world.
The special function of the Anglican
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Communion is to preserve the exact truth. She must protest against any additions to or subtractions from the teaching of Holy Scripture, and the early and undivided Church.
But, after all is said and done, the most Evangelistic, the most Catholic, the most Orthodox Church on earth will produce no effect upon the world if it has not still one further characteristic. It must clearly and unmistakably and before all the world be unworldly itself.
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