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The order of services is as follows:
S a. m., Clelebration of the Holy Com- munion.
10:30 a. m., Holy Communion and Sermon by the Rev. H. S. Longley,
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Rector of Christ Church, Binghamton.
12 m., Meeting of Officers.
1 p. m., Luncheon.
2:30 p. m., Address of Welcome. Busi- ness meeting with reports. Address by Rev. Reese F. Alsop, D.D., of Brooklyn, who accompanied Rev. Dr. Lloyd on his missionary tour around the world.
8 to 10 p. m., Informal reception at the residence of Mrs. John B. Taylor, 25 Clinton Street, to which all members of the Woman's Auxiliary are cordially invited.
Delegates from the Senior branches will please address Miss Grace Usher, 9 Mullin Street, Watertown, as early as possible, stating on what train they will arrive.
There will be a meeting of the officers Tuesday evening at Trinity Parish House at 8 o'clock.
All officers are requested to be present.
LOUISE C. IRISH, President.
The annual meeting of the Central New York branch of the Junior Auxiliary will be held at Watertown, Thursday, May 21st, in St. Paul's Church, Rev. John Carl Jagar, Rector.
The order of services is as follows :
8:00 a. m .- The Holy Communion.
9:30 a. m .- Officers' meeting of the Juniors and the Little Helpers.
10:30 a. m .- Morning prayer with ad- dress by the Rev. John Carl Jagar.
12:30 p. m .- Luncheon.
2:00 p. m .- Business meeting with reports.
4:00 p. m .- Missionary rally with an address by Miss Lucy C. Jarvis.
Delegates from the Junior branches will please address Mrs. P. H. Willmott, 4 Clinton Street, Watertown, stating, as early as possible, by what train they will arrive.
IDA F. CATTON, Diocesan Supl.
GENERAL NEWS.
The Bishop of the Diocese has appointed as Delegates to the Pan Anglican Congress to be held in London in June the following, viz. : The Rev. James Empringham and the Hon. Charles Andrews, of St. Paul's Church, Syracuse; the Rev. Francis W. Eason, of Trinity Church, Watertown, and the Rev. and Mrs. R. H. Gesner, of Christ Church, Oswego.
The Secretary of the Pan Anglican Congress is the Rev. A. B. Mynors, Church House, Westminster, London, and he is very desirous to know when the Delegates will arrive, and whether they wish to be entertained. He says in a letter of April 3rd, "You will be interested to know that at present we have only heard of one diocese out of the 251 which will be wholly unrepresented. I would remind you that it is of great importance that we should be informed of the section of the programme which each Delegate is quali- fied to attend." He also says that the Treasurer of the Thank Offering of the Congress is Mr. George Anthony King, Penn Road House, Croydon, to whom all contributions to that Fund may be sent. It is hoped that the Offering will reach the liberal amount of $5,000,000.
The Rt. Rev. Ellison Capers, D.D., Bishop of South Carolina, died on April 22nd. Bishop Capers had been feeble for some time, and was unable to attend the General Convention in Richmond, though his Coadjutor, the Rt. Rev. Wm. A. Guerry, was there to represent him and the diocese. Bishop Guerry was conse- crated September 15th, 1907, only two weeks before the Convention assembled. This is the fourth death in the House of Bishops since that Convention adjourned.
Bishop's House, Albany, April 25, 1908. RT. REV. DR. C. T. OLMSTED,
Bishop of Central New York :
The first meeting of the Missionary Council for the Second Missionary De-
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partment, consisting of the five Dioceses in the State of New York, two Dioceses in the State of New Jersey, and the Mission- ary District of Porto Rico, will meet on the 14th day of October, 1908, at eleven o'clock in the morning in the city of New York. The opening service, with the Celebration of the Holy Communion, will be held in Christ Church, Broadway and 71st Street at 10 o'clock.
Under the canon, Dioceses are entitled to Four Clerical and Four Lay Delegates cach, to be elected by the Diocesan Con- ventions. If any Diocesan Convention has not elected delegates, the canon makes the Deputies to the General Convention of 1907 members of this first or primary Missionary Council.
I issue the call as being the Senior Bishop in this Missionary Department, and authorized therefore by the canon to call the meeting.
Yours very truly, W. C. DOANE. Per E. M. C. -: 0 :-
SYRACUSE ITEMS.
Easter Day in Syracuse was rainy dur- ing all the hours of morning service, and Church attendance suffered somewhat in consequence. All the clergy express them- selves, however, as gratified and even sur- brised that their congregations were as arge as they were, for the services were by ho means neglected. In some parishes the attendance at the early Celebration was greater than on past Easter Days. The otal number of communions made in all he Churches was 1,708. In the matter of offerings there seems to have been very ittle falling off from previous years, not- withstanding the "hard times" and the Fact that less than usual was expected. On the whole the day's abundant evidences of devotion and loyalty to the Church were such as may give plentiful ground for re- oicing.
In St. Mark's Church on Good Friday vening there was held an Easter prepara- ion service substantially the same as that
suggested in the April GOSPEL MESSEN- GER. The Church was filled and the service was pronounced very impressive and profitable.
At the Children's Service in St. Mark's Church on Thursday afternoons in Lent, cards were given for the attendance of the children and the visitors they brought with them. These cards being now re- turned show what good missionary work children can do. The St. Mark's young- sters brought 137 other boys and girls to the Thursday services.
The Rev. James Empringham, Rector of St. Paul's Church, will sail for England early in June to spend the summer abroad. He will be one of the representatives of the Diocese at the Pan Anglican Congress. Ilis city address is changed from Hopper Street to No. 617 South Crouse Avenue.
Large Sunday School Lenten offerings are reported from St. Mark's and St. Paul's Churches.
The Women's Parochial Society of St. Paul's Church held a Colonial Tea and Sale on April 21st, from which $400 was realized. An auxiliary sale is to be held later which will doubtless bring the amount up to $500. With this addition to their funds the Society will have in the bank twelve thousand dollars toward the Build- ing Fund of the Parish House.
The Trinity Branch of the Junior Auxiliary has united with the Woman's Auxiliary, and Mrs. Henry N. Hyde has been elected president of the combined organization. The retiring president of the older society, Mrs. LeRoy Riemer, has been an exceptionally faithful and diligent worker.
Trinity Church has lost a friend and benefactor by the sad and untimely death of Mr. Albert K. Hiscock. Though not a communicant, he was a pew-holder and a neighbor and well-wisher of the Church,
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besides being a life-long friend of its Rector. On Easter Monday each year it was his custom to ask the Rector how much money was needed to make the Easter Offering what he wanted it to be. and a check of generous proportions would immediately be drawn. Mr. Hiscock's death occurred on April 7th, and inter- ment took place on the 9th, the Rev. Dr. Mundy and the Rev. Henry N. Hyde officiating.
-: 0: A CHILD'S PHILOSOPHY.
A few days ago I came across a touch- ingly pretty remark made by a little girl of four years old. Perhaps the GOSPEL MESSENGER will think. as I do. that (at Easter-tide) it is worth recording.
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Her father was walking with the child through the village cemetery, when, point- ing to the graves, she asked wonderingly, ·What are these for?" Her father, very much puzzled what to say. answered. "They belong to the people who have gone to heaven." "To the angels ?" "Yes." "Ah "' commented the little one, "that is where they have left their clothes."-W. H. C.
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HOW MEN COME BACK FROM ROME.
FROM THE REV. RICHMOND H. GESNER, OSWEGO, N. Y.
To the Editor of the GOSPEL MESSENGER :
May I ask those who are flooding the Church papers with letters on why men go to Rome, to wipe their eyes long enough to read some facts about "How men come back from Rome"? I am not concerned now with those cases which have since seminary days come under our observa- tion of men making the pilgrimage and shortly returning, "bringing a tale with them." We know a number of these cases. If there be a highway to Rome, there is certainly a good, broad trail back again, and the Romans know it. They are as- sidnous in covering that back-trail with leaves ! Let our lachrymose brethren
pluck up courage and give over assaulting their Mother because she is not perfect. At all events. she is the truest, best and kindest mother a Christian could have.
I regret that I have not preserved, each vear. the number of those who have left Rome for a purer and more primitive faith. In 1890 The English Church Review gave the names of twenty-one priests who had formerly been priests of the Church of Rome. In 1895-96 the
Church of England received eight priests from our Latin sister. In 1895 the Church in the United States received thirty-eight ministers of other communions, of which number several were Roman priests, and in 1897 we received twenty-one ministers of whom two were from the Pope's obe:l- ience. I doubt if there has been a year since in which we have not gained an even larger number from our foreign sister. Within the past year. Bishop Potter has received four or five Roman clergymen. I had occasion recently to bring this latter fact to the attention of one of my Roman brethren in this city, and he was not a little astonished to have the official state- ment of these 'versions put under his eyes. It is a fact that the Roman clergy them- selves do not realize how many they are losing. The secular papers often do not mention the fact, or if they do, tuck it away in an obscure corner. Such facts do not feed the vanity of Roman readers. Some years ago Father Elliott, of the Paulist Order, being asked if it were true that the Anglican Church was feeder to the Church of Rome, replied. "From my observation it is not true that the Anglican Church furnishes the largest number of converts." If Father Elliott knew the im- mediate denominational. ancestry of the converts he would have been even more emphatic.
I wish our Church Year Books would add a new feature to their bulky pages. Let them give each year the number of proselytes to Rome, and converted to the Church, with the name of the ecclesiastica! body from which the former came. The comparison will prove interesting, and I
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venture the prediction that the perverts to Rome will not outweigh the accessions to us. In time it may be possible to dis- cover the ecclesiastical antecedents of the men who leave us. That, too, would prove a delightful and illuminating study. But the lapse of Romans is not confined to their clergy. There is not a parish in the land which does not count, among its laity, those who once were Roman Catholics.
It is rather amusing to turn over the files of that strenuously "Catholic" paper, The Pulpit of the Cross, once edited by Father Wattson, now "advance agent" for reunion with Rome, and note the array of facts which he produces to show the leaks in the Roman cistern! On June 29, 1897, The Pulpit of the Cross made the following statement: "The Bishop of Indiana has kept an account of the religious training and education of those recently confirmed in his diocese, and out of a total of 471, those educated within the American Church were 242, a little more than one- half." Then follows a list of those re- ceived from various denominations. The Roman Church furnishes twenty-one of these converts. Upon this fact the editor comments thus: "We believe this average is pretty generally maintained throughout the various dioceses of the United States, and it would indicate that. about 50 per cent. of those confirmed by our Bishops are converts to the American Church from the Roman Communion and sectarian bodies. If our Latin sister, instead of heralding from the housetops the names and number of those who pass from An- glicanism to the obedience of the Pope, would take note of the tens of thousands of her own children who go astray, a goodly portion of whom find rest at last for their souls in the Anglican household, it would be more in keeping with the old proverb, People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.'" I can furnish other testi- mony both from The Pulpit of the Cross and from Roman Catholic sources to show the leakage in Rome's supposedly "tight" little house of faith.
Meanwhile I hope some of your other
correspondents will be able to shed more light on the topic of the drift from Rome. We have had enough "twaddle" about defections, enough "roasting of our own flesh." While we may not and must not blink at disagreeable facts, let us look at the other side of the shield with equal candor of gaze. There is a story there which I have not begun to unravel. Let the light of truth shine in.
RICHMOND H. GESNER.
:0: OBITUARY.
Zion Church, Pierrepont Manor, has met with a great loss in the death, on March 16th, of Miss Ellen Pease, a life- long member and a faithful communicant, born in 1835, and a daughter of Willis Francis and Mary Gilbert Pease. She came here with her family from Rome in early life, and she had been for some years the last survivor of her father's family. Her house was an ancient land- mark here, and within it had been for many years the signs of her order, pleas- antness and kindness of heart.
A. J. B.
At the monthly meeting of the Woman's Auxiliary of Trinity Church, Watertown, held March 3, 1908, the following memor- ial was presented :
"We cannot let this occasion pass with- ont putting on record our sense of the great loss that has come to our branch of the Woman's Auxiliary, in the calling from us of one who has so long been a beloved and honored member of our society. Miss Susan E. Starbuck.
Always manifesting a deep interest in missions and the varied work connected with them, she was of the ever faithful ones whom we could expeet to find in her place at every meeting, unless prevented by stress of serious illness.
In the loss of her sweet presence, gentle voice and efficient aid, which has for so many years blessed our meetings, we miss that which time cannot replace ; and the memory of her unselfish devotion
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to every good cause will long be a help and inspiration to all who have had the privilege of working with her. Of her might it be truly said,-
"She doeth little kindnesses, Which most leave undone, or despise, For naught that sets one heart at ease, Or giveth peace and happiness, Is low-esteemed in her eyes." :0:
Resolutions passed by the National Council, Brotherhood of St. Andrew, in session at the Church Missions House, New York, February 26, 1908:
"The Council of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew in the United States cordially adopts the suggestion of the Conference of Executive Officers of lay Brotherhoods that the week beginning with Sunday, Novem- ber 29, 1908, be observed by Christians throughout the world as a season of special prayer that men may be brought to Christ and that all Christians may come to feel their personal responsibility for the spread of Ilis Kingdom.
"The President of the Council is in- structed to invite the Brotherhoods of St. Andrew in Canada, the West Indies, Eng- land, Scotland, Japan and Mexico, the Church of England Men's Society, and all other similar societies to unite in the observance of the first week in Advent next as a season of special prayer that men may be brought to Christ and that all Christians may come to feel their personal responsibility for the spread of His King- dom, and to urge them to invite all Christ- ians in their respective countries to make such observance.
"The President of the Council is in- structed to request the Board of Mission's of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States and all missionary organ- izations of Churches in communion with it to urge their missionaries throughout the world to unite in the same observance.
"While the Council of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew in the United States is heartily in sympathy with the suggestion made by the Conference of Executive
MESSENGER.
Officers of lay Brotherhoods that special evangelistic services be held throughout the world on the first Sunday in December next to reach men not connected with the Christian Church, it believes that there will not be time enough to make arrange- ments adequate to ensure a general and effective effort this year. To proclaim a world wide effort by all Christians to hold such services without the possibility of making due provision that the effort shall in fact be universal and effective, would be in danger of belittling the effort.
"This Council, therefore, believes that for the first year it will be wiser that all the Brotherhoods should concentrate their strength on the week of prayer, in order that the desire for the spread of the King- dom of Christ may become the intense and compelling motive of every Christian.
"The Council will urge upon its local Chapters the holding, wherever adequate arrangements can be made, of evangelistic services on the first Sunday of December next. In order that the wishes of the Inter- Brotherhood Conference may be definitely carried out, we shall urge our Chapters to take the greatest care to see that such services have the definite, practical and apostolic object of inducing men to repent and be baptized, so that all the individuals of society may be bound together by mem- bership in Christ and that His Life may be made the life of each individual and so of - society at large."
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Mr. Robert HI. Gardiner, President of the Brotherhood, in communicating the above, says : "I should add that there is no question here of any joint meetings. If you approve, and any of your Clergy so desire, such joint meetings may be held, but no suggestion to that effect is made in the votes of our Council.
It has seemed wise to announce this effort so long beforehand, because we all hope that it will be made literally through- out the world and that all Christians will make adequate preparation to secure a universal outpouring of prayer."
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HISTORY OF ST, JOHN'S CHURCH, CAPE VINCENT, N. Y.
(Subject of Illustration.)
St John's Parish, Cape Vincent, really had its birth July 20th 1820, when John Eesselstyn, Buell Fuller and Richard M. Eesselstyn organized a Sunday School with Richard M. Eesselstyn as Superin- tendent. He held services in his own house reading from the Prayer Book each Sunday, followed by an extemporaneous prayer by Deacon Kimball of Baptist persuasion.
Rev. J. F. Fish Rector of Trinity Church, Watertown, in his report in 1840 to Bishop Delancey says: I have preached eight times in Cape Vincent.
Later services were held in the old stone School House.
Certificate was issued Dec. 26 1840 by Bishop William H. Delancey, ordering the organization of a Church at this place.
January 17 and 24, 1841, Rev. John Noble, the first Rector read a notice at the School House to the effect that there would e a meeting of the members for the pur- pose of electing two Wardens and eight Vestrymen in order to organize a Parish, according to the rites and usages of the Episcopal Church in the United States. The notice was sworn to by Rev. John Noble before Nathaniel Howland, Justice of the Peace, on Jan. 25, 1841. The male members met and elected John B. Eesselstyn and Nelson B. Williams. Vardens. Nelson Potter, Otis P. Starkey, Robert Bartlett, Calvin K. Poole, Judah T. Ainsworth, Robert Moore, Rice Parish and William Eesselstyn were elected Vestryman. The above election was sworn o and signed by John Noble and Otis P. Starkey, and witnessed by Nelson B. Williams and William Dery, and recorded n the County Clerk's Office. Jan. 27. 1841. Daniel Lee, County Clerk.
All these orignal documents are now on file with the Church, including many etters from Bishop Delancey and Clergymen who have finished their work on earth and
gone to their reward. The society being fully organized, the matter of a settled place of worship was taken up at a meet- ing April 13, 1841. A building commit- tee was formed consisting of Otis P. Star- key, N. B. Williams, Calvin H. Pool and Judah T. Ainsworth with power to give out contract and raise funds. Previous to this a subscription had been started, liberally signed by 53 persons. This sub- scription is still in existence with the names of subscribers in their own hand writing, not one of whom is living to-day. What may seem strange is there is but one attending St. John's Church to-day who is a representative of the original subscribers. A lot was given by Otis P. Starkey and the building commenced and built at a cost of $3,189.65.
Rev. Nathaniel Watkins, who assumed its rectorship in 1842, resigned January, 1845, and went west. Rev. Samuel H. Norton was Rector to 1850. Rev. Samuel Adams to 1851; Rev. James Abercrombie, 1852 to 1855; Rev. Edward Moyses to 1857; Rev. Edmond Kennedy to 1860; Rev. Ammi Merchant Lewis to 1863 ; Rev. William H. Lord to 1864; Rev. Nathan F. Whiting from 1864 to 1870; Rev. John Blair Linn to 1872: Rev. Geo. G. Perrine to September, 1880; Rev. Samuel Strowger to 1898, over seventeen years of faithful work; Rev. J. Howell Gcare to 1899; Rev. Evan Thos. Evans began December, 1899. During Mr. Evans' rectorship the church was newly seated and a vested choir added. The money for this object to the amount of $1,000 was raised by the Ladies' Aid, while Rev. J. Howell Geare was rector, and during the repairs services were regularly held in the Fireman's Hall. After the Rev. Mr. Evans resigned in 1901 services were supplied by various clergymen ineluding Dr. Herrick, Rov. Messrs. Doolittle and Tyndal. Rev. Chas. Noves Tyndell was called and accepted October, 1901. and served acceptably till his resignation in 1906. The present Rector is the Rev. Walter Earl Cook, who took charge in December, 1906.
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TREASURER'S REPORT. The Treasurer acknowledges the receipt of the following sums during the month of March 1908, 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
Fund.
Colored
Missions.
Relief Fund of
the Diocese
Adams,
$. .... $ $
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
Afton,
2.25
Alexandria Bay,
1.75
Altmar,
Antwerp,
Auburn, St. John's,
St. Peter's,
32.50
Augusta,
1.00
Aurora,
Bainbridge,
Baldwinsville,
Big Flats,
Binghamt'n,ChristCh.
25.00
" Good Shepherd Trinity
21.00
39.60
Boonville,
Bridgewater,
Brookfield,
Brownville,
Camden,
Canastata,
Candor,
Cape Vincent,
7.70
Carthage,
7.18
Cayuga,
1.00
Cazenovia,
Champion,
Chenango Forks,
Chittenango,
Chadwicks,
Clark's Mills,
Clayton,
Clayville
Cleveland,
Clinton,
Constableville,
Copenhagen,
Cortland,
Deerfield,
Dexter,
Dey's Landing,
Dryden,
1.00
2.55
Durhamville,
Earlville,
East Onondaga,
Ellisburg,
Elmira, Emmanuel,
16.04
..
Grace,
50.00
Trinity,
45.93
Evan's Mills,
Fayetteville,
Forestport,
Frederick's Corners,
Fulton,
Glen Park,
Great Bend,
Greene,
15.00
Greig,
Guilford,
2.40
Hamilton,
3 27 6.05
Harpursville,
2.50
Hayt's Corners,
.95
..
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.
.
.
. .
.
.
.
.
·
·
.
.
5.11
...
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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.
Reliet Fund of
the Diocees
Ovid
$.
$
$
$
$
$
Holland Patent,.
34.00
Homer, ...
Horseheads,
Interlaken
Ithaca,
17.95
12.10
Jamesville,
Jordan,
4.05
Kiddders Ferry,
Kendaia.
Kings Ferry
Lacona,
LaFargeville,
1.75
Lowville,
Manlius,
Marcellus,
4.00
3.00
2.25
McDonough,
McLean,
.40
. 60
Memphis,
3,80
Mexico,
Millport,
Moravia,
21.25
Mount Upton,
New Berlin,
10.00
New Hartford,
5.18
New York Mills,
Northville,
Norwich, Oneida,
10.94
Onondaga Castle,
1.00
Oriskany,
Oriskany Falls,
Oswego, Christ Ch ..
Evangelists,
12.00
Owego,
9.85
7.28
Oxford,
16.30
Paris Hill.
Phoenix,
3.50
Pierrepont Manor,
.12
Port Byron,
Port Leyden,
Pulaski,
Redfield,
Redwood,
2.95
Rome, Zion, .. St. Joseph's,
Romulus,
5.00
Sackett's Harbor,
3.33
Seneca Falls,
Sherburne,
6.91
Slaterville,
.20
Smithboro,
.80
25
Speedsville, Spencer,
Syracuse. All Saints, Calvary,
1.75
15.00
SS SO
Ch. of Saviour,
12.62
Grace, St. John's, St. Luke's, St. Mark's, .
47.47
St. Paul's,
103.43 44.27
50.84
St. Philips,
Trinity,
12.13
15.00
. .. .
.
6.30
·
·
.
.
.
Skaneateles,
1.00
THE GOSPEL MESSENGER.
Fund.
$
$
8.75
80
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Diocesan
Missions.
Diocesan
Expense
Fund.
Domestic
Missions.
Foreign
Missions.
General
Missions.
Deaf Mute
Missions.
Christmas
Fund.
General Clergy
Relief Fund.
Church
Building Fund.
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