Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-11-25
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Semt-annual Dinner at tho New ccnt1ir
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Semi-Annual Dinner at tho New Century
club Last Evsning.
The Church Club of Delaware held
its semi annual dinner Thursday in
the pgrlors Of tha New Century Club.
Seventy ministers and laymen Jnirnh
10 tho dinner, partaking of an { CO
lont menu. Dir. j. A. Ellegood, presl-
dent of tho club, presided and Bishop
Coleman sat at his right Other guests
OF tho club at tho head table were tue
Rev. Charles s. Olmstaad, S. u. D.,
of Bala. Pa. tho Rev. c. I, Brady,
nrchdeacon of Pennsylvania: the lev,
Lyman Z. Powell of Amhler, Pa. and
the Rev. @. Ernest Smith, ID. Du OF
Baltimore. The club sent a telegram
of greeting to the Church Clun OF
Philadelphia, which was also holding
a dinner. and received message OF
creating from it,
DR.. EiIogood, acting as toastmaster.
started tho feast of reason by calling
on Rishop Coleman to speak on tho
Historic Episcopate. The bishop
said that tho diocese Of Delaware was
Ill years old, hut for great many
years it had no bishop of it's own; and
SO in tho Unitsd States the church
was in existence some time before it
had bishop OF itR own. IL was at the
General Convention of tho Church,
held in this city, in October, l7S6. that
Hteps were taken which proved elective
to secure the first bishop 10 the Eng
| lish line of succession. DR.. Seahury
was tho first American bishop, having
heun consecrated by the Scotch bishops
| who traced their conservation to the
English bishops. bishops White and
| I'LL Gnu
| bishop went nm to show the accuracy OF
the succession from st. Augustine down
to Bishop White, the latter being the
llGth in succession and the record
showing the attendance of the three
bishops at each conservation as required
| by rule of the Council of Nice. St.
Augustine lived at the close Of the sixth
| century. The bishop thought that the
English epiacopate sprang from Gaul,
to bishops who traced their consecra
tion back to st. John. He looked upon
the bishopric as the safeguard of the
orthodoxy of the church.
The Rev. Charles S. OlmsteRd oil
BalA, Pa, discussed the "Duties ano
Privileges OF I.aymen.' In closing bt
paid a tribute to the late President
Roberts OF the Pennsylvania railroad
1
discussed by toe Rev Lyman P. Powel
nf Amber, Pa, who was formerly as
sistant at st. Andrews,
The RHv. q. Ernest Smith. d. d., o
Baltimore made strikingly interestin D,
address on "The Early Annals of thi
Church 10 the Peninsula, I"
The concluding speech was the gen
of the evening" for ArchdeHeon Brad!
mi NlfIn "a N N
spring address on the usually dry sub
ject of Church Finance. lie divide,
tho sub ject into two parts, the finance
for self, such as for running ths parisl
from which each member gets a dirsc
benefit, and the finances for other-solf
as for missions. As to offerings 70
missions he declared that the elerg
did not got them because they did no
ask for them, maintaining that wbe
the subject was properly presented III
laity would HlWays respond.
In conclusion Archdeacon Brady spok
with rare eluquence of three boys VIII
started out to get power. One becnm
great capitalist and builder of rail
, roads. hut he lived for Helf. The seoon
, became leader in politics and as th
Plrmed Knight swayed great crowd
with hiH magnetic power, nut hs live
to see every dream Of his life shattered
And the third determined TO be
power for good. lie was not the greates
theologian or the greatest scholar of til
church, bu; wherever he was the peopl
/, tlocked to hear him, and when no die
the children wept in the streets. TIL
first was Jay Gould, and no ons though
OF rearing "A monument TO him. Th
second was James @. Blaine, for whof
a memorial was thought OF, but re
sponses were few and the project wa