St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-08

He then spoke of the first superintend-
ent of the school, Mr.. Tuttle, who la
bored with the children for upward OF
generation. and Mr.. futile, who was
present. was asked 10 take seat upon
the platform.
Following occurred the presentation
of a beautiful banner by the young
girls of the guild. The presentation
speech was made by the superintendent.
The banner contains the words
"Gethsemane Sunday School 1885," and
the emblem of the church, the cross.
These characters are all worked in gold
on silk back ground. DR.. Faude
made feeling eloquent response in
accepting the emblem and the tribute of
the girls. He drew an illustration of
what he expected of the pupils of the
school, picture of the color bearer of
a certain regiment of soldiers who had
first one arm shot of and then the other,
but who detiantly picked up the BAN
ner in his teeth. The service was
closed with song.
Installation of Officers.
The installation of newly elected Of
ticerS of the Brotherhood of Gethsemane
was conducted last evening by Bishop
knlckerbOcker, the founder of the
order. The exercises were simple, ana
consisted for the most part of feeling
address by the reverend bishop. impress
ing upon the successful candidates tine
Importance of their Offices and their
opportunities for accomplishing ma
terial and spiritual good. The new Of
ficerS are: Rev. j. j. Faude, the rector
of Gethsemane church. president; W.
II. Richie, vice president; z. V. Z.
Williams, secretary, and E. J. WeiIzel.
treasurer.
Rev. Faude announced that Bishop
KhickerbncSer had been solicited to
sketch the history of the Brotherhood
of GethSemane. and had kindly con-
scented to do so that evening, w hereupon
the bishop commenced his address. He
begun by saying that as lJ was the
twenty-frSt anniversary of the order
the brotherhood had attained the stature
OF full and glorious manhood. Its
growth and what it had accomplished
evidenced the power that rests with
laymen to materially assist tie pastor
i'll his parochal duties, and in
the bene6cent work of religion and
charity. During the winter of 1859 the
bisaop, then the recter of GethSemane
cburcn, conceived the idea of organ-
izlng the laymen Of the congregation
into an organization. The field for
doing good was too large for him TO fill
acceptably 10 himself. Alter conSulta-
ton with other members of the cOngre-
CATION, the idea was considered practi-
cal. anu the Brotherhood of Gethsemane
was formed. Rev. DR.. Chase formu-
lated the constitution, ana DR.. McMas-
tiers, of Christ church in st. Paul.
preached the first sermon on the pur-
poses Of the order. During the
twenty-one years OF its exist
A.NI Il
chapels and missions and started
and zpalousy prosecuted the custom of
visiting the city and county jails on
each recurring Sabbath. ST. BdrnabaS
hospital, originally known as tine HIS
pItal OF the Brotherhood, owes its eX-
lStence 10 the order. The bishop rt-
ferred to the generosity of number OF
old citizens who contributed or their
means, their time and labor to TIL
growth of the bIOthernoo He related
number of humorous incidents III con-
nectIon with early missionary services
i'll the parish and the babynood OF the
organization. The bishop said it was
univtrSally-obeyed rule of the brother
be assigned them, and to il
the success of the organization
was mainly due. He closed his
address by c0unseling tile members of
the brotherhood to continue their work.
to assist their pastor and further grow
in usefulness and power. Rev. Faude
then spoke for a lew moments to the
congregation and To the brotherhood.
He expressed confidence in the orgapi-
cation and would LOOK To it Tor aid. and
believed its career III the future would
lie As happy and as fortunate as it had
been in the past.
A feature of the evening service was
the singing of the offertory by Master
Louis Miles.
The Gethsemane club. composed of
the men of the congregation, will ban
quet Bishop knickerbocker at the Guar
anty Loan cafe tonight.