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100.00
. St. Joseph's,
Romulus.
Sackett's Harbor,
6.00
Seneca Falls,
23.40
Sherburne,
42.00
Skaneateles,
20 26
Slaterville,
Smithboro,
Speedsville,
5.00
Spencer,
3.00
Syracuse. All Saints,
" Calvary,
Ch. of Saviour,
Grace,
St. John's,
St. Mark's, .
20.05
110.00
3.50
4.44
St. Paul's, ..
37.39
17.46
34.07
" St. Philips,.
2.00
. Trinity,
E. Emmanual.
1.00
3.66
Theresa.
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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.
Relief Fund of
the Diocese
Trenton,
Trumansburg,
Union Springs, 1.43
Utica, Calvary, 32.96
Grace,
239.50
Holy Cross, 3.63
" St. Andrew's,
St. George's, .
St. Luke's,
Trinity, 7.70
Van Etten,
Warner,
Waterloo,
Watertown, Trinity,
St. Paul's, . Redeemer,
Waterville,
7.70
Waverly,
Weedsport,
8.00 3.36
Wellsburg,
Westmoreland,
2.00
Whitesboro. 3.15
Whitney's Point,
Willard.
2.48
Willowdale,
2.22
Windsor.
Convocation, 1st Dist.
2d Dist.
3d Dist.
4th Dist.
5th Dist.
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RECAPITULATION.
Diocesan Missions $ 819 41
Diocesan Expense Fund 56 25
Foreign Missions
17 46
General Missions
151 27
Deaf Mute Missions 24 00
General Clergy Relief Fund
4 45
Miscellaneous.
Interest to July 1,. $ 13 54
C. N. Bible and Prayer Book Society,
Christ Church, Guilford .. 2 50
New York and Prayer Book Society,
St. Paul's, Oxford
15 50
Total
$1,104 38 FRANK L. LYMAN, Treasurer, 108 Pearl Street, Syracuse. CORRECTIONS:
In July report, the Offering of $1.00 for C. N. Y. Bible and Prayer Book Society credited to "Oneida" Castle, should have been credited to Onondaga Castle.
The amount of $42.27 credited to Grace, Waverly, for Diocesan Expense Fund, should have been for Diocesan Missions,
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. DIOCESE OF G
AL NEW YORK
DIOCESE OF CENTRAL NEW YORK
Entered as second class matter June 1, 1905, at the Post Office at Utica, N. Y., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
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CALENDAR.
November.
1 .- Twentieth Sunday after Trinity. All Saints.
8 .- Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity.
15 .- Twenty-second Sunday after Trinity.
22 .-- Sunday next before Advent.
29 .- First Sunday in Advent.
30 .- St. Andrew.
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BISHOP'S APPOINTMENTS.
November.
4 .- Wednesday, A. M., Grace, Elmira,-Con- secration of Church.
4 .- Wednesday, Evening, St. John's, Ithaca.
5 .- Thursday, Evening, Trumansburg.
8 .- Sunday, A. M., Fayetteville.
8 .- Sunday, P. M., Jamesville.
10 .- Tuesday, Board of Missions, New York.
13 .- Friday, Missionary Conference, New York.
15 .- Sunday, A. M., Oriskany.
15 .- Sunday, Evening, Zion, Rome.
22 .- Sunday, A. M., Calvary, Syracuse,
29 .- Sunday, A. M., Calvary, Utica.
December.
6 .- Sunday, A. M., Norwich.
6 .- Sunday, Evening, Hamilton.
.13 .- Sunday, A. M., Whitesboro.
13 .- Sunday, Evening, New York Mills,
18 .- Friday, Evening, New Hartford.
20 .- Sunday, A. M., Oneida.
20,-Sunday, P. M., Durhamville.
STUDIES IN THE PRAYER BOOK.
The rubric preceding the Order for the Burial of the Dead forbids the use of that Office in the case of 'any unbaptized adults, any who die excommunicate, or who have laid violent hands upon themselves." The reason for these exceptions is manifest to every one who thinks of the character of the service, and of the persons who are referred to in the rubric. The whole tone of the Burial Office is that of an assured and confident hope ; it is taken for granted that the departed one has gone hence in faith and penitence, and in a state of peace with God and men. Our Lord said, "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved." St. Peter said, "Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins," &c. Baptism is the door of admission, the sacrament of initiation, into the Church. Unbaptized persons, therefore, are not members of the Church, they do not belong to the Society; and the service for burial is intended only for such members. Does the Masonic Fraternity use its burial rites for those who are not members ? Of course not. There is this difference, how- ever, leaning towards charity in the Church, that unbaptized infants are not excluded from burial with this service, because it is not their fault that they were not brought within the Fold. But grown people who have not been baptized, have taken the responsibility of refusing to come into the Church, they did not care for its privileges or its blessings during their life time, and of course the inference is that they do not care for them after they are gone. At all events, they have no right to expect them. As for those who "die excommunicate," it is manifest that they also die impenitent, because if they had been penitent they would have been restored to the communion of the Church. and impenitence is not a secure basis of hope. The words of the Burial Office do
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not adapt themselves readily to such cases. And the same may be said, though even more emphatically, of those "who have laid violent hands on themselves." Some- times suicide is the result of insanity, and in such cases there is no responsibility. But when people of sound mind take their own lives, they go before God with hands stained with their own blood, and are guilty of a breach of the sixth command- ment of the Decalogue. Of course it is not the part of man to pronounce eternal sentence upon any other man; but the Church is clearly right in refusing to use such a service as that of the Prayer Book over the remains of a wilful suicide.
But this is not to say that the Clergy should refuse altogether to officiate at the burial of any of the above mentioned persons. Funerals are occasions which concern the living as well as the dead, and their feelings are to be considered to the extent of doing all that is consistent with law and propriety. Some other service may be used, a modification of that in the Prayer Book, which will be satisfactory to the friends of the deceased, without expressing anything out of keeping with Christian teaching under the circum- stances.
In connection with this subject the Bishop of this Diocese would say, that he has several times been requested to set forth for the use of the Clergy some ap- propriate form of service, to be used on such occasions as are referred to above; and having consulted with two of our well known liturgical scholars, both of whom were members of the Prayer Book Revision Committee in 1892, he now sub- mits an office which he hereby authorizes for use in the Diocese.
OFFICE FOR THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD, when the Prayer Book Office may not be used.
At the house .- My son, despise not those the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of Him; for whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth.
Psalm 90 .- Lord, Thou hast been our refuge, &c.
MESSENGER.
Brethren, let us turn for consolation in our sorrow to the Blessed Lord, Who in His great love for us submitted to the death upon the Cross, as we read in St. Luke's Gospel, (St. Luke xxiii. 24 to 49.)
The Apostles' Creed.
Prayer for Persons in Affliction.
Prayer-"We humbly beseech Thee," &c., from Litany.
Prayer-First collect at close of Com- munion Office.
At the grave .- Psalm 130-Out of the deep, &c.
In the midst of life we are in death, &c.
We commit this body to the ground, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust ; until the day when the earth and the sea shall give up their dead, and we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Jesus Christ, our most blessed Saviour and Redeemer.
Then shall be said:
Thy mercy, O Lord, reacheth into the heavens, and Thy truth unto the clouds. Thy righteousness standeth like the strong mountains; Thy judgments are like the great deep.
Lord have mercy upon us. Christ have mercy upon us. Lord have mercy upon us. Our Father, &c.
We beseech Thee, O Lord, to raise us from the death of sin to the life of right- cousness, that when we shall depart this life we may rest in our Lord Jesus Christ till the day of His glorious appearing. In Thy great mercy prepare us for that day, O Lord, and give us grace so to number our days, and in life so to think upon death, that we may attain unto the resur- rection of the just through the same Jesus Christ our Lord .- Amen.
The grace of our Lord, &c. :0:
THE AMERICAN SABBATH UNION is to hold its annual meeting in Utica on November 8, 9 and 10, and we have been requested to ask the Clergy to give some attention to its purpose and work, if possible, by having special sermons con- cerning Sunday observance on the 8th, or in any other way that may be convenient
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for them. It is one of the very important matters that call for plain, emphatic teaching in our age, that the Lord's Day should be retained among the necessary institutions of Christianity. The old Puritanical theory has failed and, as usual, people have gone practically to the other extreme, in many cases making no difference between Sunday and any other day so far as either work or play is con- cerned, and in large numbers of cases using the day for mere physical rest and amusement. We must try, therefore, to find a happy mean between the unnecessary strictness of the Puritans and the entire disregard of many of our contemporaries, if we are going to preserve the day for religious purposes of any sort. If we can impress upon people's minds the duty of public worship on the Lord's Day, so that their consciences will be engaged in its observance, we need hardly insist upon the laying aside of every sort of recreation. The old requirement of worship and no recreation has snapped, and the negative is now put in the wrong place.
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ST. PHILIP'S CHURCH, SYRACUSE.
St. Philip's Church, Syracuse, is the only one in the Diocese of Central New York having a congregation of negroes.
Its life and work began with a service conducted by Rev. H. G. Coddington on Sunday evening, July 25th, 1897, in the dwelling house at the corner of State and Cedar Streets. Fourteen persons were present, six of whom are still members of the organization. The name "St. Philip's Church" was then chosen. - The services have been continued from the beginning without failure, first in a Lodge Room, and then for a considerable period in St. Paul's Chapel, and finally in a building belonging to the congregation. In May, 1901, Bishop Huntington and other friends having furnished the money a dwelling house at 209 Almond Street was purchased and fitted for the use of the congregation as a place of worship. A mortgage of $1,100.00 remains upon the property which is now probably worth
more than the purchase price of $3,000.00. In January, 1901, the Church was incor- porated under the "Free Church Act" with a board of seven trustees, five of whom are colored men. Several of the Diocesan Clergy have aided the movement, and for three short periods, each of a year or more in duration, the Rector has had the assistance of a colored Deacon or Lay Reader. The Rev. N. Peterson Boyd, now in charge of St. Philip's Church, Brook- lyn, served as curate for nearly two years. He was followed by the Rev. Floarda Howard, now of Philadelphia, who re- mained about a year, and .during the greater part of the past year Mr. Wilbur Q. Rogers has acted as Lay Reader.
There are three congregations of colored people in Syracuse, Baptist, Methodist and St. Philip's, and about 1,500 persons of the negro race.
St. Philip's Church has a small vested choir, a Sunday School of 35 children, a Communicant list of 56 persons, an Altar Guild, a Parish Aid Society and a Branch of the Woman's Auxiliary. In its parish books have been recorded 62 Baptisms, 96 confirmations, 8 marriages and 18 burials. The committee in charge of the Advent Offerings of our Diocesan Sunday Schools has determined to ask the schools to give their help to St. Philip's Church.
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THE ADVENT SUNDAY SCHOOL OFFERING.
We do not approve of the promisenous killing of birds, but when it can be done metaphorically in any good cause it is well to "kill two birds with one stone." A thoughtful friend among the Clergy has suggested that the children of the Sunday Schools might increase the offerings in Advent, and at the same time increase the list of subscribers to THE GOSPEL MES- SENGER, if we were to allow them a per- centage on such subscriptions as they might obtain in their respective parishes. We should be very glad to accede to such a plan. Eleven copies of the MESSENGER to one address are now given for $5.00. We should be willing to give the children cleven copies for $4.00, thus enabling
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them to clear $1.50 on every eleven sub- scribers. On any number less than eleven 20 per cent. discount will be allowed on the regular price. A lot of active children, interested in the work could easily make quite an addition to the Sunday School offering in this way.
We are sending sample copies, enclosing subscription blanks, to all of the parochial Clergy this month, and we trust they will give their attention to the matter and make a success of it if possible.
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PAROCHIAL NOTES.
TRINITY CHURCH, SENECA FALLS .- The Rev. W. Bours Clarke, Rector. Through the generosity of a devoted com- municant, the sanctuary of Trinity Church has been very much beautified and im- proved. The walls have been decorated and electric lights placed all round the great brick arch of the chancel. The lights were placed as a memorial to Miss Hannah Thompson by her niece, Mrs. Adeline F. Cowing. The decorating was made pos- sible also by Mrs. Cowing's generosity. The work was done by R. Geissler, of New York.
At a meeting of the Vestry on October 6th, Mr. Stephen D. Mickley was ap- pointed Junior Warden to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. W.illiam B. Lathrop, and Mr. F. Tracey Wells was elected as vestryman.
On September 15th, the Rector, (the Rev. William Bours Clarke, ) entered upon the 16th year of his rectorship.
ST. ANN'S, AFTON .- The Rev. Henry S. Sizer, Rector. This Church has recently been painted, and a new slate roof put on at a cost of nearly $400, the entire sum having been raised by subscrip- tion in the parish.
A valuable property, consisting of a large lot and comfortable house, has been given to Zion Church, Rome, to be used as a rectory. Mrs. George W. Day is the generous donor, and it is given as a memorial of her husband.
ST. MATTHEW'S CHURCH, MORAVIA .--- The Rev. W. S. Stevens, Priest in charge. In old St. Matthew's Parish, founded in 1823, the fall work has been taken in hand in real earnest and several improve- ments and betterments have been made and others are to be done just as soon as the workmen can get to them. The Church is now being painted and will look very much better in its new dress of stone gray. A cross of cast iron of over 200 pounds in weight has been placed on the front gable of the Church, which adds greatly to the appearance, since never till now has this Church been possessed of an external cross of any description. The front porch is to be enclosed with sash and doors and made thereby into a vestibule for the protection of the main doorway from drafts. Two new Chancel lights, electric, have been put in and are most effective. The furnaces have been overhauled and put in first class shape for the winter.
On St. Luke's day at the late Celebra- tion a new pair of Eucharistic, and also a new pair of three branched Vesper candle- sticks were used for the first time-they come from R. Geissler, and are most dignified in design and solid in construc- tion. These. candlesticks were bought with funds furnished by the Altar Guild for that purpose.
It is expected that by Easter a new altar and reredos will be in place, since .the money for the material's has been promised. While all that has been said refers to the material improvements only, yet there is also much that might be said of the in- creased interest in the work of the parish along spiritual lines, for the people really do seem to be awakening to their spiritual privileges and duties.
CHRIST CHURCH, OSWEGO .- The Rev. R. H. Gesner, Rector. A special service of thanksgiving for the safe return of the Rector and his wife from the Pan Anglican Congress was held in this parish, the musical part of which was arranged by the Choirmaster, Prof. Schilling.
Since the first of August the parish had the pleasure of listening to a former
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Rector, the Rev. L. G. Morris, of Los Angeles, and to the Rev. Anthon T. Ges- ner, Canon of the Cathedral of the Merci- ful Saviour, Faribault. The vestry have contracted for the putting in of a new Ross Motor to blow the organ, the old one, after many years of service having broken down beyond repair.
The Rector, wardens and vestrymen have accepted from the children of Mr. The Board of Managers in New York in making out the apportionments for the several dioceses and districts throughout the country for the ensuing year, have in- creased the amount for Central New York to $11,200, which is $500 more than it was last year. Leonard Ames and Mrs. Ann M. Ames, a new altar and reredos in memory of their mother. The chancel rail was given some years ago by Mrs. Ann M. Ames in memory of her husband Leonard Ames, a faithful vestryman of the Church. The new memorial which will com- memorate one of the saintly benefactors of the parish, is a dignified and stately piece of architecture, of the finest black walnut, . the sum apportioned to us, it may seen finely carved, and filling the entire rear wall of the chancel. Both altar and reredos were consecrated by the Rector on St. Luke's day, October 18th.
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ORDINATION.
On Tuesday, September 29th, the Feast of St. Michael and All Angels, the Bishop of the Diocese advanced to the Priesthood the Rev. Geo. Carleton Wadsworth, Deacon, in Grace Church, Utica. Morn- ing Prayer was said at 10:30 by the Rev. Jas. J. Burd, the lessons being read by the Rev. Jesse Higgins, and at 11 o'clock the Ordination service was begun, the Ladies' Volunteeer Choir of the parish singing .a hymn while a goodly number of Clergy came into the chancel, preceded by the candidate. The sermon was prcached by the Rev. John R. Harding, D.D., Rector of Trinity Church, under whose super- vision Mr. Wadsworth has been studying, and he also presented him for ordination. The Bishop intoned the Veni Creator Spiritus, and the Clergy who united in the laying of hands, besides those already mentioned, were the Rev. Dr. Bellinger, Rector of the parish, and the Rev. Messrs. Coley, Parker, Byron-Curtiss, Crydenwise, White and Schrader, of this diocese, and Messrs. Beeson and Pike of the diocese of Albany.
After the first of this month Mr. Wads- worth will have charge of St. Peter's Church, Oriskany, in connection with St. John's, Whitesboro, where he has been serving for the past two years.
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APPORTIONMENT FOR GENERAL MISSIONS.
Looking at this from one side of the question, and considering that we have never raised in the diocese more than half to some people absurd that they should go on year after year increasing the amount. Such action on the part of the Board is regarded as very discouraging, and those who feel so are sometimes disposed to give up the attempt altogether. But there is another aspect of the matter which has a totally different appearance. In the list of apportionments sent to us from the Missions House, we find how much per communicant is asked from the several dioceses, and it is by no means the same in all. It ranges from 12 cents per com- municant in Alaska to $1.56 in New York and Pensylvania; and this is the way it stands where C. N. Y. comes in, viz. : Albany, 57; Atlanta, 62; California, 72: C. N. Y., 50; Cen. Pennsyvania, 64 : Colorado, 86; Connecticut, 73. Are our people poorer than in all these other dioceses ?
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The Rev. A. L. Byron-Curtiss, who for more than fourteen years has been Rector of St. Joseph's Church, Rome, has been called to the charge of St. Luke's Church, Utica, and has accepted. He begins his work there the first of this month.
The Rev. Albert W. Allen, who for some time has been in charge of St.
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Peter's, Oriskany, and St. James', New York Mills, will on the first of this month relinquish the former place and take charge of St. Joseph's, Rome, removing his residence to the latter place.
The Rev. Geo. C. Wadsworth, of Whitesboro, having been recently advanced to the Priesthood, will take charge of St. Peter's Church, Oriskany, in connection with that of St. John's, Whitesboro, where he will continue to reside.
The Rev. E. Warren Saphore has resigned the rectorship of All Saints' Church, Syracuse, his resignation having taken effect October 1st.
The Rev. William A. Braithwaite, Rector of Emmanuel Church, Adams, will from this time carry on the mission at Ellisburg, Jefferson County, which was formerly under the charge of the Rev. A. J. Brockway.
Mr. M. E. Mclellan, a Postulant for Orders and Lay Reader, has been ap- pointed by the Bishop to conduct services at Redfield, and also at Lacona, both of them in Oswego County.
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A lady residing in Utica, communicant of the Church, desires a position as com- panion attendant in a Church family. For references address THE GOSPEL MESSEN- GER.
SYRACUSE ITEMS.
The annual meeting of the Church Sun- day School Institute was held at the Church of the Saviour, Monday, October 19th, with the Rev. Herbert G. Codding- ton, D.D., in the chair. "Stand up, stand up for Jesus," was sung, after which the Intercessory Litany appointed for use for the occasion was read. , On motion a hearty vote of thanks was tendered the officers for the past year for their efficient work. On motion of the Rev. Dr. Merlin- jones the following resolution, after animated discussion, was unanimously adopted :
That the incoming Executive
Committee of the. Church Sunday School Institute of Syracuse be requested to formulate a plan whereby each Sunday School may be visited by a committee from time to time from September till June in each year. The duty of this Committee shall be to inspect the schools, suggest im- provements, and to report to the Executive Committee such suggestions and recom- mendations. The Executive Committee shall issue a report to each Sunday School in November, February and May, incor- porating, what in its opinion, may be valuable in the suggestions of the several visiting committees.
The election of officers for the ensuing year resulted as follows: President, Rev. I. M. Merlinjones, D.D., Church of St. John the Divine; Vice President, Rev. Walter E. Jones, Calvary Church; Sec- retary-Treasurer, Mrs. Robert E. Dey, these with three more to be appointed by the president will form the Executive Committee.
Arrangements for the week of prayer have been made which will be as follows : Union service each noon at St. Paul's Church, from 12:10 to 12:30. Each of the leading parishes will have evening service, either every evening or every other evening, and will attend the alter- nate evening at St. Paul's Church. The Brotherhood of St. Andrew, "the St. Phillip's Society and the Sunday School Institute have given their hearty approval to the week of prayer, and will do all in their power to work and pray for its suc- cess.
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