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The Rev. Karl Schwartz sustained severe injuries on June 16th. He was riding down a hill on his bicycle when the machine collapsed and threw him against a tree. A bone in the left shoulder was broken and the left arm and hand were wrenched and bruised. Mr. Schwartz is now able to be about and has resumed his pastoral duties, for the present, single- handed.
Grace Church has expended $1,300.00 in internal improvements since January 1st, and has added to its plant a rented dwelling adjacent to the Church to be used as a Guild House. The improvements inside the Church consist of electric lights, a hard-wood floor, Brussels carpet for the aisles and matched hassocks for the pews.
Six of the Syracuse Churches held their Sunday School picnics on Tuesday, June 30th, Grace, St. Paul's, St. Mark's and All Saints' Sunday Schools went to Long Branch on Onondaga Lake. Trinity and
the Church of the Saviour went Edward's Falls near Manlius.
Mrs. F. D. Huntington and the Misses Arria and Mary Huntington have gone to Hadley, Mass., to spend the summer under the colonial roof-tree of their old family homestead.
Judge and Mrs. Charles Andrews sailed from Montreal on June 25th to spend the summer in England. They are accom- panied by Justice and Mrs. William S. Andrews.
The Rev. Dr. E. W. Mundy spent ten days of the past month in Newark, N. J.
Mrs. Ernest Melville, widow of the late Rector of Fayetteville, is a member of the staff of workers of the Church of the Holy Communion in New York City. She is in charge of a large club house maintained for working girls. In the summer months Mrs. Melville, superintends a sea-side club for the same girls at St. Johnland, Long Island. The work is under the direction of the Rev. Henry Mottet, D.D.
:0 GENERAL NEWS.
Bishop Brent, of the Philippines, who was elected to the Sce of Washington to succeed Bishop Satterlee, concluded that he could not accept the honor, and sent the following cablegram :
"Must decline. I would have gone, but God bids me stay .- St. John v. 30 .- Brent."
But the people of Washington were not willing to give him up so easily, and at another Convention assembled for the pur- pose of choosing a Bishop, they elected Bishop Brent the second time. It was a singular proceeding, and as yet no reply has been received.
:0: PERSONALS.
The Rev. E. C. Hoskins, formerly of Spencer, Van Etten and Candor, has been appointed to Zion Church, Windsor, to succeed the late Rev. J. J. Andrew. Mr. Hoskins entered upon his duties the last Sunday in June.
to
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The Rev. William S. Stevens, who has been working with the Rev. F. C. Smith n the Boonville Associate Mission has been appointed to Moravia and Groton. Mr. Stevens began his new work on Sun- lay, June 28th.
The Rev. C. W. IIakes, M. D. has re- igned the Rectorship of Calvary Church, Lomer, and Grace Church, Whitney Point. Dr. Hakes expects to take up work in the Diocese of Western New York .
The Rev. Oliver Kingman has been ppointed to succeed the Rev. Mr. Stevens assistant in the Boonville Associata Lission.
The Rev. F. W. Feary, Rector of Grace Church, Carthage, has taken charge, emporarily, of the Mission at Champion, efferson County.
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OBITUARY.
Mr. James T. Sloan, of Syracuse, passed way very suddenly at his home on Satur- lay, May 9th, and was buried from All Saints' Church, of which he was a vestry- nan, on the following Wednesday. Ho was born in Newburg, N. Y., 73 years ago, but had for some time been a resident and engaged in business in Syracuse. Tho Rev. Messrs. Staunton, Schwartz and Saphore took part in the funeral service, Ind the following minute was adopted by he vestry :
"The Vestry of All Saints' Church, Syracuse, in special session assembled, lesire to express their highest regard for Ind appreciation of the sterling qualities possessed by our departed friend and as- ociate James T. Sloan. Mr. Sloan was mong the first members of All Saint's parish, and was elected to its vestry Decem- ber 4th, 1900, and proved himself a faith- ul and conscientious steward. To his family we extend our heartfelt sympathy u their bereavement. As a token of our respect this memorial is ordered spread
upon our minutes, and the Clerk is directed to send a copy to the family of Mr. Sloan.
Died May 9th, 1908. Buried May 13th, 1908." Syracuse, May 17th, 1908.
Entered into rest June 4th, 1908, at Oswego, N. Y., Mrs. Roxy Wilcox Doolittle, a faithful communicant of the Church of the Evangelists.
The following resolutions were passed by the Vestry of the Church of the Evan- gelists, Oswego, N. Y. :
"Whereas, It hath pleased Almighty God to call to eternal life Mrs. Roxy Wilcox Doolittle, a life-long communicant of the Church of the Evangelists, Oswego. N. Y., full of faith and good works, we. the Rector, wardens and vestrymen of the Church of the Evangelists desire to place on record our sense of loss, and our thank- fulness to God for the good example of a holy life.
The Church is enriched not only by sacred memories, but now by the fuller life of her who faithfully loved and served in the Church militant and now is still one with us in Christ, in the Communion of Saints, in the Church expectant, for Liv- ing saints and dead but one communion make."
We desire to express to the family and relatives our sympathy and prayers that God will give them every comfort and con- solation and to her who has gone before may He grant eternal life and let light perpetual shine upon her.
HAMILTON D. B. MAC NEIL .. For the Vestry.
Shortly after midnight on Wednesday. June 24th, William Livingston Watson, of Utica, was seized with an attack of apop- lexy, and passed away in a very few minutes. He had been talking with his family in apparently usual good health a few minutes before.
Mr. Watson was the son of Dr. William HI. Watson, Senior Warden of Grace Church, and was a member and very
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regular attendant of that parish, much interested in its welfare and good works. He was an affable and courteous gentleman, and a great favorite among his many friends, to whom, as well as to his family, his very unexpected demise came as a great shock. At his funeral in Grace Church the Bishop of the Diocese took part with the Rector, the Rev. Dr. Bellinger.
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CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD, ONONDAGA CASTLE.
(Subject of Illustration.)
The first publication of the gospel among the Onondaga Indians is said to have been that of the Jesuit Missionaries, and as. early as 1655, and the Mission being given the name of St. Jean Baptiste, and it is said the Mission was destroyed by toma- hawk and fire on the morn of All Saints, 1669.
(See Stone's Life of Brant, App. 18, of Vol. II; also Clark's Onondaga.)
Some have denied the truth of this assertion, but it seems sufficiently sub- stantiated; at any rate the Mission was given up.
In June, 1700, the Earl of Belmont proposed to have the Rev. Mr. Lidius of Albany learn their language, and translate the Bible into their tongue.
In April, 1710, five Iroquois Chiefs were presented to "the gracious Queen Anne," asking for missionary teachers and promising their support.
This Queen presented both the Mohawk and Onondaga Mission's each with a Com- inunion set of solid silver; that to the Mohawks said to be in use by them to the present day; and that to the Onondagas (inscribed "to her Indian Chapel of the Onondagas,") being now in the possession of St. Peter's Church, Albany. It would appear that services were held at Onondaga in connection with the Church at Albany. Forty years later David Leisberger, the Moravian Missionary, continued his labors, it is said, for upwards of ten years, com- posing also a Dictionary and other works of the Onondaga dialect.
In later times services were held by the
Rev. Timothy Clowes of Albany, as also by the Rev. Messrs. Clark and Geer, and nearly 30 children baptized; and further missionary work was done also by the pioneers-the Revs. Daniel Nash and Davenport Phelps, the later residing for a time (1802-3) at Onondaga Valley.
Mary Doxtater, the widow of an Oneida, taught school for a time, about 1820.
The Rev. Eleasar Williams (the respected Dauphin, and missionary to the Oneidas, ) and others, may also have visited the Onondagas, but on account of lack of space, we must hasten to speak of the formation of the present Mission of the Church of the Good Shepherd, begun by Col. James P. Foster, as a lay reader under the direction of the Rev. George Morgan Hills, D.D., of Syracuse, and those who were present at the W. N. Y. Con- vention in St. Paul's Church, Buffalo, August 19th and 20th, 1868, (of whom the writer of this sketch was one, ) will remember the eloquent appeal of one of the delegation of the Onondaga Indians, brought by Col. Foster to that Convention, desiring the religion and services of our Church, and that the Bishop take them under his spiritual charge and jurisdic- tion ; and all will note the zest with which the Diocesan Missionary Board took up the work of the Mission. The Bishop call- ing the whole delegation forward, an- nounced to them that he had received them as his spiritual children. The sight was exceedingly affecting, and no one present will ever for get it.
(See American Churchman, Aug. 27, 1868.)
The Wesleyan Chapel and lot, of about two-thirds of an acre was bought, which has since been improved by the addition of a recess chancel, &c., and school-room, windows of colored glass and furnace, as also in later years by a Roodscreen and other appointments.
The School Room erected by the zeal- ous labors of the Lay-Rearder, George B. Walthart, (who died Feb. 19, 1875, from the exposure incident upon its erection), was for the purpose of a parish School, on
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ccount of the neglected condition as to he educational privileges.
The great improvement of late in the State School, and its equipment, makes uch a Parish School superfluous.
Our State authorities are now also building a large Industrial School, to be cady for occupancy the coming Autumn. For a number of years the work of the Parish School was carried on with many liscouragements, the Misses Elizabeth Knapp and Julia E. Remington and others boring zealously and diligently, and any of the better educated Indians owe- huch to the diligence of those faithful borers.
The Rectory or Mission House was built under the direction of the carnest hy reader, James G. Cameron (now in loly Orders, ) improved since by others, nd by collar, furnace, &c., under the able ngincering of the Rev. W. D. Manross, nd a cistern under the kitchen has been dded and other improvements since our ceupancy.
All the work has been pushed "against vind and tide" by our late Bishop Hunt- ngton, who often made visitations to the Mission, and at much expenditure of honey and muscle, among these few hun- red (600 or 700 at the most ) souls, many f whom in the meantime resisting all ttempts at their Christianizations carried n at the first by the Diocesan Missionary Board, at great sacrafice, until the financial ressure of 1876, when, after the departure f the present writer from the field, it was hade necessary to resort again for a while b the use of lay readers ; and in later years y the more vigorous prosecution under the V. A. of C. N. Y., there ought to be a howing of more abundant fruitage.
The Historical Records of the parish re quite imperfect, and the readers of the TESSENGER must be satisfied with the ames of the workers as they occur in the Baptismal Register, some of them coming rom their charges in the city of Syracuse ome eight miles distant.
The Rev. George Morgan Hills, D. D., 868-9; Col. (afterwards Rev.) James
P. Foster, 1868-73; the Rev. Robert Paul, of Port Byron ; Messrs. Geo. B. Walthart, 1874-5; William D. Parker, 1875; A. J. Brockway; Rev. W. S. Hayward, 1876-7 ; Mr. (and since the Rev. ) Jas. G. Cameron, 1877-81; Rev. J. O. S. Huntington ; Messrs. Thos. Daykin and H. Todd; and the Revs. John W. Birchmore, F. A. D. Launt, Thos. B. Berry ; Joseph M. Clarke, D.D .; William F. Hubbard; F. W. Bartlett; Thos. E. Pattison, B. D .; Wm. C. Leverett ; T. C. Rucker, 1884-86; John A. Bowman, 1886-87; G. W. Gates; Albert Cusick; John Scott, 1888-97; Wm. D. Manross, 1897-1900; and the present Mis- sionary from the Feast of All Saints, 1900. During our stay 100 have been baptized, and the whole number of baptisms regis- tered is 327; over 100 have been con- firmed; over 180 have been admitted or received at the Holy Communion; and there are about 80 nominal communicants ; and the Missionary has upwards of 400 baptized persons on his visiting list, a part of these being whites, ) many of whom are away at schools, or temporarily on other Reservations.
During the incumbency of the Rev. Mr. Manross the Honiton Lace Work was established, under the diligent oversight of Mrs. Manross, which, upon our coming here, in 1900, my daughter, Miss M. S. Hayward, carried on; and in 1904, Miss Sybil Carter, backed by prominent women of New York city, inaugurated the Italian ent-work, and my daughter pays the Indian women workers on the average of over two hundred and fifty dollars annually.
As to the other statisties in regard to our work here the kind reader is referred to the reports of the present Missionary to the W. A. of C. N. Y.
"When we call to mind that 300 years ago, these Indians were savages, roaming the forest, we may thank God, and say "Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto Thy name give the praise; for Thy loving merey, and for Thy truths' sake." remembering that "Truth is mighty, and will prevail."
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TREASURER'S REPORT. The Treasurer acknowledges the receipt of the following sums during the month of May, 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,
$15.04 $. $ $.3 90$ $
$
$
$
$
$.2.29
Afton,
2.25
4.15
Alexandria Bay,
1.55
2.58
Altmar,
*3.75
1.57
Antwerp,
1.75
Auburn, St. John's,
*37.40
11.75
:
St. Peter's,
32.50
30.72
Augusta,
Aurora,
16.88
2.50
6.70
4.56
Baldwinsville,
*27.00
3.45
Big Flats,
2.37
Binghamt'n,ChristCh.
9.45
3.50
.. Trinity
11.27
Boonville,
4.47
Bridgewater,
1.25
Brownville,
2.00
Camden,
*15.18
3.22
Canastota,
2.44
Candor,
25.23
3.20
Cape Vincent,
4.50
Carthage,
*17.45
7.90
Cayuga,
2.00
4.80
Cazenovia,
6.95
Champion,
1.30
Chenango Forks,
1.08
Chittenango,
3.95
Chadwicks,
2.97
Clark's Mills,
14.09
Clayton,
2.50
3.60
Clayville
3.30
Clinton,
8.22
Constableville,
1.96
Copenhagen,
2.30
Cortland,
10.50
Deerfield,
Dexter,
8.70
Dey's Landing,
3.26
Durhamville,
4.90
EarIville,
1.71
East Onondaga,
Ellisburg,
Elmira, Emmanuel,
5.10
.. Grace,
.. Trinity, 74.86
2.17
Fayetteville,
*38.00 *18.62
4.37
Forestport,
.85
Frederick's Corners,
Fulton,
6.07
Glen Park,
Great Bend,
2.15
Greene,
15.00
11.00
Greig,
2.40
(milford,
13.5.
6.52
Hamilton,
4 87
4 38
Harpursville,
2.50
4.76
Hayt's Corners,
2.71
Bainbridge,
Good Shepherd
Brookfield,
Cleveland,
Dryden,
Evan's Mills,
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Diocesan Missions.
Diocesan
Expense
Fund.
Domestic
Missions.
Missions. Foreign
General
Missions.
Deaf Mute
Missions.
Christmas
Fund.
General Clergy
Relief Fund,
Church
Building Fund.
Ministerial
Education
Fnud.
Colored
Mimions.
Relief Fund of
the Diocees
Ovid
$
$
$
$
Holland Patent,.
35.00
2.49
3.10
Homer,
*8.75
1.50
Horseheads,
Interlaken
3.30
Ithaca,
55.27
24.60
Jamesville,
3.27
Jordan,
4.52
5.50
Kiddders Ferry,
Kendaia.
1.92
Kings Ferry
.50
LaFargeville,
1.80
3.35%
Lowville,
31.25 *17.60
Manlius,
10.66
McDonough,
1.6
McLean,
16.37
1 43
Memphis,
1.50
Mexico,
≥11.71
1.26
Millport,
11.96
2.45
Moravia,
9.15
Mount Upton,
9.56
New Berlin,
10.00
10.00
7.000
.. 00
New Hartford,
1.44
9
New York Mills,
3.01
Northville,
Norwich,
Oneida,
10.77
9 .6
Onondaga Castle,
1.53
Driskany,
*5 33
2.00
12.00
Dswego, Christ Ch.
0.00
Dwego,
24.66
17 .. 5
13.35
Paris Hill.
5.25
Phoenix,
.35
Port Byron,
1.77
Port Leyden.
2.73
Redfield,
1.18
3.3.
Rome, Zion,
St. Joseph's,
Romulus.
3.33 =10.00
20 43
Seneca Falls,
¥23.54
2 6!
sherburne,
9.96
10.00
skaneateles,
2 61
mithboro,
1.9:
peedsville.
110
syracuse. All Saints,
..
Calvary,
Ch. of Saviour.
9 05
Grace,
*15.00
4 40
..
St. Luke's, .
St. Mark's,
6.61
St. Paul's,
48.95
41.19
55 .~ 9
..
St. Philips. ..
1.50
1.92
Trinity,
33.55
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
6 (3
Pierrepont Manor.
Pulaski,
Redwood,
13 62
4 75
pencer,
=5.00
11.31
1 .. 3
2 00
: 27
St. John's,
*$1.34 *19.19
2.13
Priskany Falls,
Evangelists,
¥3.25
13.58 *14.31
16.92
Oxford,
7.65
Lacona,
*3.00
Marcellus,
$
Sackett's Harbor.
laterville,
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Diocesan Missions.
Diocesan
Expense
Fund.
Domestic
Missions.
Foreign
Missions.
General Missions.
Deaf Mute
Missions.
Christmas
Fund.
Relief Fund.
Church
Building Fund.
Ministerial
Education
Colored
Missions.
Relief Fund of
the Diocese
Syracuse, E. Em'nel, $ 1.00 $.4.15 $ $
Theresa,
Trenton,
2.36
Trumansburg,
Union Springs,
4.4
Utica, Calvary, 21.38
16.3 43.8
Holy Cross, 7.46
2.87
15.1:
St. Andrew's, 4.26
21.3. 7.3.
St. Luke's, 5.13
Trinity,
19.4
Van Etten,
Warner,
2 50
1.3:
Waterloo,
6.85
13.3
$4.58
7.65
35.9
Watertown, Trinity, St. Paul's,. =
149.12 *54.16
10.2 6.01
Waterville,
21.01
Waverly,
Weedsport,
Wellsburg.
Westmoreland,
2.6
Whitesboro,
4.8
Whitney's Point,
2.00
3.9
Willowdale,
1.33
8.6
Windsor.
Convocation, 1st Dist.
2d Dist.
3d Dist.
Jerusalem Mission .... Groton
.56
2.1
RECAPITULATION.
Diocesan Missions
$879 89
Diocesan Expense Fund
280 70
Foreign Missions
3 90
General Missions
91 05
Deaf Mute Missions
12 14
General Clergy Relief Fund
6 70
Church Building Fund
1 78
Ministerial Education Fund
64 37
Colored Missions
17 75
Miscellaneous.
Central N. Y. Bible and Prayer Book Society:
Calvary, Syracuse, $1.35; St.
Paul's, Holland Patent. 92c ...
2 27
N. Y. Bible and Prayer Book Society: Calvary, Syracuse
1 00
General
Missions-S.
S.
Lenten
Offering:
St. John's Whitesboro, $18.75:
St. Paul's Holland Patent, $11; St. Mark's, Syracuse, $130.
159 78
Work Among Jews:
All Saints', Syracuse
4 21
Bishop Kendrick (Dec. Off.) : St. Peter's, Cazenovia, S. S.
Lenten
13 8
$1,539 4:
FRANK L. LYMAN. Treasurer, 108 Pearl St., Syracuse.
NOTE .- Amounts marked with an asterisk (*) are for the fiscal year 1907-8.
General Clergy $
$
$
Fund.
$ $.1.5 3.0. 1.6 5.7
Grace,
St. George's, .
Redeemer, 27.90 *23.31
Willard.
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CALENDAR.
2 .- Seventh Sunday after Trinity.
6 .- Transfiguration.
9 .- Eighth Sunday after Trinity.
6 .- Ninth Sunday after Trinity.
3 .- Tenth Sunday after Trinity.
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BISHOP'S APPOINTMENTS.
August.
0 .- Sunday, A. M., Clayton.
0 .- Sunday, P. M., Millen's Bay.
0 .- Sunday, Evening, Cape Vincent.
September.
6 .- Sunday, A. M., Alexandria Bay.
Redwood, Theresa, Carthage, Champion, openhagen, Lowville, Boonville, Constable- ille, Port Leyden, Church of Redeemer, Water- own, Adams.
October.
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PAN ANGLICAN CONGRESS AND DEFECTIONS TO ROME.
We do not believe that many of our people have been much disturbed by the recent secessions . to the Church of Rome. Of course there are some who will deplore them, and the departure of the Superior of the Sisterhood of St. Mary is un- doubtedly a great blow to that society of good women, who have done such' fine work for the Church in several of our dioceses. But let us not forget the things that we have to set on the other side of the question. First, the general fact that the Church of God is not a thing of yesterday, but of the ages past and to come, and has weathered many a storm in comparison of which this is but a very little breeze. Then, the renewed proof now given of the don- ineering, devouring spirit of the Roman establishment, so plainly showing its descent from the Empire that had its seat on the seven hills rather than from the Church of Christ at Jerusalem. The words of that recantation which the 'verts were required to make remind us of Daniel's vision of the fourth creature "execeding dreadful," which "brake in pieces and stamped the residue with its feet." There is nothing beautiful or attractive about it. But above all, let us realize the fact that while this little secession was taking place here in America, the hosts of the Church, which has been mercifully freed from that domination, were gathering in vast mm- bers in London, from every country in the world, to take counsel for the better ad- ministration of the work which has grown so marvellously during the past century. The effect of that Congress and its signifie- ance are plainly shown by the hysterical criticism of it by the Pope himself. If it had not made him wince he would have paid no attention to it, and his remarks were absurd.
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THE GOSPEL
GENERAL MISSIONS.
It will be remembered by all the Clergy that the year of the Apportionment for General Missions closes with this month; and, as usual, no doubt, a good many have waited till the last before sending in their offerings. There is a little encouragement for us in this Diocese in the latest report to hand, which gives the amount con- tributed up to June 1st as $3,924.64, as contrasted with $3,766.98 to the same date last year. But when one notices the largo number of congregations from which nothing had been received at that time, and the many that had given but a small fraction of the sum requested of them, there is small reason to hope that we shall be able yet to take our stand among those that meet the whole Apportionment. But that July report contains one very striking lesson. It shows that several of our weaker parishes and missions have paid the whole amount, as well as some of the stronger ones ; and when one comes to look closely into the record he finds that these smaller places are under the charge of Clergymen who have more than one Church; and that each of the Churches of certain men have paid up, while not one of the Churches under certain other men lias given any- thing at all. What does that seem to indicate ? Of course the reports for August and September may show a different state of things, and we trust they will, but the report for June seems to point to some- thing significant.
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STUDIES IN THE PRAYER BOOK.
It has been our effort in the course of these "Studies" to make clear the distinc- tion between those parts of the service of the Church and its accessories which are mandatory and not subject to change by individuals, either by way of omission, substitution, or addition, and those other parts which are purposely left more or less indefinite and open to variation accord- ing to the preferences of the Minister and Congregation. This is a distinction which
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