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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-06-30
OF AID TO HOSTESS
SUGGESTIONS FOR NOVEL AND
PLEASING ENTERTAINMENTS.
A Guessing Contest That Is Not Hard
German Booth at Bazar-The
Hour for Luncheons and
Proper Decorations.
A Good Guessing Contest.

A Good Guessing Contest.
This is guessing contest quite out
OF the ordinary. Provide papers with
numbers from one to 20, with a pencil
for each guest. On table have 20
objects. Tell the company that they
represent prominent men. Allow
stated time for devining who they are.
For prizes a small bust of one Of the
men represented, a book by one of the
authors or framed photograph are
suitable.
l. A steel pen-Penn.
"A piece of earth.-Clay.
3. A chestnut burr-Burr.
4. A slice of Bacon.
5. A dinner bell-Bell.
6. Bones-Bonaparte.
z. Map Of Italy showing the Pc river
Poe.
8. Porter bottle-Porter.
9. Picture of Red Riding Hood and
the wolf-Wolfe.
TO- Oyster shells-Shelley.
II. Lady's hood-Hood.
II. How.LLL-Hcwells.
10. A coat showing revere-Revere.
IL. Advertising pictures of houses
for sale-Holmes.
Is. A column of figures and toy
Columbus.
l6. A small tent fixed as if for ba-
zar-Booth.
l7-II-Twain.
: 1S-A coffee mill and a box marked
20 cwt.-Milton.
10. A bag or toy wagon marked 1000
Fulton.
2O-A letter L on toy boat-Elliott
q yacht).
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-06-30
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-06-30
NESTS LIKE SMALL TOWNS
Habitations Built by the Grosbeak
Capable Of Accommodating
Five Hundred Birds.

The grosbeak, a bird common to
tropical countries, frequently builds
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-06-30

A correspondent asks for some ideas
for decorating German" booth at
bazaar, and what would be appropriate
for souvenirs; also what to serve in
place of beer.
Have bare wooden tables and chairs;
decorate with the German colors cred,
black and Whitley and palms to make
1t look as much like an outdoor gar
den as possible. Dress the walters in
peasant costume, hair braided, white
caps or the very becoming large Asa
tian bow; short skirt, velvet bodices
and white waists. Any or all the va
rieties OF soft drinks may be served,
such as root beer, ginger ale, lemon
ade, seller, and phosphates. If no 9th
er places provided, tea, coffee and
chocolate may be sold also.
Small stems, corn-cob pipes and tiny
German flags would be suitable for ia
vors, or they could be sold for a trife
and thus make another source of rev.
enue. A guitar or mandolin orches-
ira would add much, or strolling
band of students to sing the always
popular college songs for which the
Germans are famous. This ought to
be one of the most attractive booths
at the bazar.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-06-30

In serving luncheons and in decorat-
ing during the next three months, try
to have the menu as seasonable as pos
s1ble and use the delicate pastel shades,
reserving red and heavy dishes for the
winter months. Change the somber
draperies and elaborate pillow covers
to ones of washable fabrics and make
life as easy and as bright as possible.
MADAME MERRI.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-06-30

A reader who shows much interest
in the department desires to know the
proper hour for luncheon, and if the
entertainment scheme should follow or
precede the spread?
The luncheon hour is froD. one to
half after or even as late as two, and
the musicale or whatever the hostess
may have provided should follow the
meal. It is customary to have every
thing in readiness to serve Is minutes
after the hour designated, allowing the
usual Is minutes Of grace for the
guest who may be belated; but it is
an objectionable offense to be tardy
when an hour is stated in the invi-
tation for the serving of repast. One
late arrival can put the most self-con-
tanned hostess out of humor and COM
pletely upset punctilious cook.
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Linsley said, "In the progress of American Christianity since 1907, this Church of ours has stood for certain principles and ideas which have had a most Salutary influence upon the moral and religious life of the people.
 There is first her historic continuity.
 The appearance of this form of Chris
 tianity in Jamestown, in 1907, is not
 the first beginning of newly formed
 body then entering upon new exiS-
 tence, but is the transplanting of a
 much older growth in the virgin soil
 of the New World.
 land of that Anglican Christianity which had behind it noble history of
 more than 1000 years in Old England and could trace its lineage farther
 back even to apostolic days. Here,
 then, is a church venerable with age, not newly invented thing, not re- gently formed body made by breaking of all connection with the past and setting up new forms of worship and new theories of religious life, and new standards of doctrine, but the old Church having continuous existence from apostolic days. It is not too much to say that this American Episcopal Church with it's Prayer
 Book worship has preserved the faith from dlsintegratiOn and restored pub lie worship to greater dignity anc beauty and reverence. It has
 also been the champion of sober re likious sentiment which has proved a safeguard against the emotionalisu of sO-called revival movements which have so appealed to the feelings, thai they have lost sight of the moral anC practical side of the awakened reli
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The following declaration wa S also drawn up and signed: I've the sup- scrlbers being fully persuaded in our minds and believing in our conscience that the Christian Church as institut- ed by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, was and still is Episcopal and that the particular form of Divine Worship and the Rites and Ceremo- nies as established and set forth in the Liturgy of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of Amer lca is the nearest Apostolic and the best calculated for Christian Edifica- tion of any now practised in merica, we therefore being thus persuaded do hereby enroll ourselves as Members of the same and do submit ourselves to the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction and authority of the Bishop and Diocese of Connecticut. In witness whereof we have enrolled our names this 3Oth March, l907.-[Christopher Prentice, Benjamin Hawley. John Sperry, Mi Reuben Tinker, Samuel Blackman, Daniel Skidmore, Henry Jackson, Glov. CT Skidmore, A mos Lake, Ebenezer l. Thompson, David Pulford, Robert Porter. Benjamin T. Lake,
 Peter Lake, Josiah Stilson, Amos Allen and Daniel Bishop had joined in the petition. for meeting, but they did not sign this declaration.
 In order to know exactly what this declaration meant we must understand something of the religious situation at that time. It was not quite B years since the A American church had SC. cured it's first bishop: there were but 26 clergy in Connecticut; Churchmen
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gious life, and of doctrinal stability which being firmly anchored in the past has proved able to stand un. shaken in the midst of the many wild vagaries which ap pear, and the blasts of strange doctrine which arise in new forms or as old ones re-appearing. * \ through her authorized formularies and the genius of her system which needs to be used to be understood, through her orderly methods, her re- ligiOuS sanity, her reliance upon the freedom of the individual conscience, instead of imposing arbitrary tests of discipleship or demanding prescribed or uniform emotional experiences, and through the refining influence of her matchless liturgy, this American Episcopal church has exerted great influence upon the moral and social and religious life of this nation and people. She has made large contributions to national righteous ness in trying to establish Christian ideals. Her beautiful and solemn services have served to keep us in our right relations to God, and her other woven with our daily life.'
 Two hundred years ago this coming April there was organized at Stratford the mother parish of the Diocese of Connecticut. Something of the place of our Church in the life and history of Connecticut is to be told us by one who is most eminently fitted to speak thereon. So shall pass at once to the history and work of our own par ish, Christ church, Bethlehem
 The first steps toward the organiZa-
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were flock hated and harried, ''scat- tered and peeled" Here they were decidedly in the minority, and in many places had felt keenly the hard ship of being taxed to support Congre- gatiOnaltSm.
 On the other hand the Congrega- tiOnaliSts in New England were strong and generally intolerant In their scheme there had been no place for religious liberty as we understand it. Their meeting-houses had been erected and supported by public taxation. It is true that at this time one could escape taxation for the benefit of the Congregationalists, but only by being taxed for the support of some other denomination holding religious meet ings in the same town. Even these mad to organize and govern themselves and tax their members after the man.
 ,er of Congregational societies. It was not until 1913 that a new consti- tuition, giving to all the inhabitants of the State equal civil and religious privileges, abolished the established ecclesiastical system and the power of COngregatiOnaliSm as State religion. The new Constitution allowed men to worship as their conscience directed, and freed them from the burden of taxation for the support of religious system in which many did not believe. MOREOVER ON BETH1EHEM GREEN
 stood one of the most prominent meet ing houses in New England, made famous by it's still more famous pastor.
 For half century (1740-l790) the local Congregational Society had been ad- 'ninistered to by pr Joseph Bellamy, an accomplished scholar, a profound evangelist second only to Whitefield, a writer known and read on both sides # the Atlantic, teacher of noted skill, the first American pastor to es-
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ically delinquent in paying its dioces-

ically delinquent in paying it's dioces- an dues.
 After 1922, the Rev Sturges Gilbert ministered to Woodbury, Roxbury, Washington and Bethlehem, devoting about One-Sixth of his time to Bethle- hem and receiving stipend of $l25. Bethlehem parish then had IS fami- lies and Is communicants and remain ed stationary for several years. In 1923 the members, either despair. ing of having church building of their own or else moved by spirit of l liberality and concord, voted to obtain subscriptions for the erection of i ''union house" for Episcopalians, Pres | byterians, Methodists and Baptists. But evidently the plan was not carried out.
 In 1928, the Rev Isaac Jones, who had long resided at Litchtield, assist ing the Rev Truman Marsh, took charge at Bethlehem; and he seems to April 4, 1928, the name "Christ church," was adopted. In 1929 the present church building wa erected In 1882 the parish reported B families, 25 cOmmunicantS Sunday school of teachers:and 30 scholars, and Bible class of 30.
 But in 1885 when the Rev: William l WdCSOH OOOh CudISo OI NOTCHuelu anu Bethlehem, he found the Bethlehem parish discouraged and lifeless. He however stimulated the parish, had the interior of the church completed, and the church cOnSecrated by Bishop Brownell, September B, 1885; urged contributions to missions and extra parOchial objects; and started an en dowment. The amount of $3 ,O4l was subscribed in the form of notes bear ing annual interest. Most of these notes were paid and the fund was latel increased by investment and legacies amounting now to something oveI
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tion of parish were taken in l8O6 under the direction of
 THE REV DANIEL BURHANs, D. D.,
 RECTOR AT NEWTOWN.
 The date of the first meeting is not known; but there is an entry in the parish register stating that it was in the house of MT Samuel Bloss, Carmel Hill. On this occasion six children of MT Samuel Bloss, several belonging tt MT Christopher Prindle, and several adults were baptized.
 There is in existence volume of manuscript sermons collected by D, BurhanS, containing a very favOrite sermon of his on "Universal Redemp. tion and Free Grace" Among the places in which he preached this ser mon he has recorded, "Betblem, Jan- uary 22, 18O7."
 On March 13, 1907, in response to b petition signed by IS names, Davie Bellamy, justice of the peace, gave u Daniel Skidmore the necessary war. rant for holding meeting to organiZ a parish of the Episcopal church. This, the first regular parish meet ing, was held at p. m March 30, 1907. at the house of Amos Lake, at a spo, about half way between Royal B marked by two large naples It is O1 reckons it's legal and corporate exist. ence.
 At this meeting the following wert chosen as the officers of the parish:- l Benjamin Hawley, clerk, and later l treasurer: John Sperry, moderator, ano l later warden; John Sperry, Michael 1 Judd, Abel Hard, veStrYmen.
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on the dollar on the list of 1897 In April, 1910, they raised the tax to three cents. At this time the grand levy of the parish averaged $35OO, SO that the amount thus raised was about $1OO each year. The tax seems to have been given up after 1921. except for the one instance that in 1927 the members voted to raise $l25 in this way.
 In these early days services were held in the Center schoolhouse and in various private houses. For several years ministrationS were in the charge of the Rev Russell Wheeler of Water town, and later the Rev Joseph Davis Welton held Woodbury, Roxbury and Bethlehem as one cure. In 18l6 ap- pears the first parochial report of - church, Bethlehem; Rev Joseph D. Welton, rector: families -; com- municants, eight.
 The parish seems later to have been without regular ministrations for some considerable time. In 1920, when Bishop Brownell took charge of the diocese, Bethlehem parish was ow- ing to the bishops fund $115. From 1927 to 1881 it is again noted as chron-
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Christ (EpiscopaD Church, Bethlehem.

sS,0OO.( The most notable addition was legacy of S29O0 left in 1896 by the late Jerome B. Strong.
 In 1889 the parish undertook the support of a resident minister. Rev Isaac Futile entered upon success full rectorship of five years and pre- sented the largest confirmation class, numbering P, in the history of the parish.
 WAS PURCHASED A BELL, WEIGHING
 HALF A TON.
 At this time the parish seems to have been fairly prosperous and the attend ance good. But the Rev MT COvell complained that the parish could not grow because of frequent removals, especially of the young. Rev MT lowell left in 1851; and during the IA years following the parish seems to have declined somewhat.
 In 1868, Rev Alonzo Norton Lewis, then lay reader, took charge of the parish, and after his ordination re- mained until 1870. Under him the parish reached perhaps it's highest point of prosperity. There was good attendance at the services and a con- siderable Sunday school; generous con- tributionS were made to missionary objects, and several substantial lega- cies left to the Missionary society, to
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BETHLEHEM. A Century of Parish CHRIST (EPlSCOPAL)
 CHURCH CELE-
 BRATES. Addresses by Bishop Brew |, ster, Rev Samuel Hart,
 D. D, and Others.

The lOOUQ aQnlVeFHaFy Ol SuIiS1 (Episcopal church of Bethlehe m was tittingly observed, with services be- ginning Sunday morning, and contin' uing till Tuesday, in connection with the Litchtield County Archdeaconry meeting, Monday and Tuesday. The weather for the three days was ideal, and the attendance and interest large. The attractive church interior was made bright with autumn leaves, field and garden flowers and the brilliant red berries of the forest. The service Sunday morning was conducted by the H. Dixon. The hymns used were "Onward, Christian Soldier, :" "Glort. ous Things of Thee are Spoken" 70 God, Our Help in Ages Past" and "The Church's One Foundation" There were present about 75 people, a large congregation for this church. The sermon was by Rev MT Dixon and was listened to with deep interest. He chose his texts as follows:
 l Chron. IT IA: But I will settle him in mine house and in my kingdom forever; and his throne shall be estab- liShed fOrevermOre."
 Psalm 72 8, IT: "His dominion shall be also from the one sea to the other: and from the flood unto the worlds end. His name shall endure forever; his name shall remain under the sun among the posterities: which shall be blessed through him; and all the heathen shall praise him."
 Jude 3: in part: "The faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints"
 Almost nineteen hundred years ago there appeared in Palestine 8 person of very remarkable character known 1>lo {ct tol %Dr granted that all here know the facts of that life as they are recorded in the Gospels and summed up in the ApOS- ties Creed,-that He was the Revela. tion of God the Father, that He Him. self was divine and eternal, and that He was born of Virgin and lived and died and arose and ascended again to tue Father, that He worked miracles, that He claimed the power to forgive sins, that He gathered about Himself a little body of disciples and taught them the things concerning the King dom of God, that He established a Society, the Church, to represent Him visibly in the world, that He appoint and gave them their commission, "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations. baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost"
 At any rate these men, Peter and Paul and John and the others, with their disciples and successors, believed that they had received such commission from such Person. More over, not only did they firmly believe it, but many suffered torture and even laid down their lives for their belief. We read that they travelled the length and breadth of the civilized world and civilization, enduring hardship and danger that they might teach men the way of salvation, that by baptism they might make men members of the Church, of Christ, the chil- dren of God, and inheritors of the king dom of heaven.
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ministrations of Rev J. Chauncey Linsley, being later served for short periods by Rev J. T. Hargrave, Rev E. M. Skagen and Rev L. R. Sheffield.
 In 1896, the late Horatio N. Lake left a bequest to Trinity college. es- tablishing the scholarship for the support of young men intending later to prepare themselves for Holy Orders.
 In 1903, the parish again determined if possible to secure and support a clergyman of it's own, This it is now doing with some assistance from the Missionary society. Since September 20, 1903, l, as lay reader and now dea- portunity of ministering to this con- gregation.
 The parish has been unfortunate in the fact that the aveage ministry has been little more than two years. The longest terms have been those of Rev Isaac Futile (lS39 1S44), Rev A. N. Lewis (lS65-187O), Rev J. B. Robinson (l878- -1883), Rev Ralph H. BowleS (1884- l890), Rev J. Chauncey Linsley (l89O- 1S95).
 In the parish register, the records running back to 1882, though the early ones are incomplete, there are recorded, 25O baptisms, 200 confirma- tions, 78 marriages, 163 burials, and since 1865 there have been 155 com. municants identified with the parish. At the last Diocesan Convention Christ church reported 20 families, 64 baptised persons, 36 communicants, and Sunday school of seven officers
 have been speaking of the past ot the church and the parish; we must now look forward to the future. It is not enough that we delight in the deeds and the triumphs of those who have preceded us, we must reSOlutely set ourselves to meet the trials and the tasks that are before us. For about a century the Gospel of Christ has here been preached to men. May that Gospel in all its purity still be preached here throughout the cen turies until Christ shall come again to claim His own. One who long ago ministered in this church has written to me, ''the fire is still alight upon her altar. Long may it burn!''
 Whether that fire shall burn long and bright depends on each one here each man, each woman, each little child. Let us each, from the greatest to the least, faithfully fulfill our own part, let us seek not the highest offices but the hardest tasks, let the dominent note of our life be not sell fishness but service, let us strive not for honor but for opportunity, let us desire not so much to be praised of men as to be approved of God, let us walk worthy of the vocation where with we are called that at the last we and all who gather here may be found "partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light"
 MEETING OF THE LITCHFIELD COUNTY
 ARCHDEACONRY
 The meeting of the Litchfield Coun- ty Archdeaconry opened at 2 p. m. Monday, Ven. Archdeacon J. F. Plumb of New Milford presiding: The clergy present were: Rev G. HI. Smith of Kent, Rev J. F. Plumb of New Mill ford, Rev J. H. Bernard of Woodbury. Rev James B. Mics, Ph. D., of Sharon,
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tabliSh in his own house Ia school o1 the DrOphetSn

the prophets
 In the face of this it must have re- quired courage and conviction for a few men to assert that they were per suaded in their minds and believed
 in their conscience that the Church of Jesus Christ was Episcopal and that they were determined to submit them selves to the spiritual direction of the Bishop of Connecticut In our parish indeed the influence of Congre- gationalism still survives in the form Df it's organization, in some quaint modes of procedure, in peculiar phraseology, in a narrow theological bias; but we trust that whatever it's shortcomings and failures, it still
 holds "the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints, that it still breaches the Gospel of Christ, that it still points men to the Cross, to some a stumbling block and foolishness but
 to us the way of salvation.
 At the second parish meeting, May
 4, 1907, John Sperry was chosen dele gate to the Diocesan convention to be held at Watertown on June 4. Later delegates were: Daniel Seidmon(?) (1S10l Leverett Judd Q813), Samuel Bloys(?) (1816).
 At a parish meeting January 21, 1908, the members voted to tax themselves for the support of services two cents
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Trinity college and to the Berkeley Divinity school. Shortly after MI Lewis resignation extensive altera' tions were made in the church edifice, costing some $3 800.
 Soon however the parish began rap idly to decline. For several years services were kept up largely by lay reading. From 1874 to 1878 only occa- sional ministratio were afforded by the Rev Dr Lewis, then residing in Watertown. During part of this time the church seems to have been closed.
 In 1878, Rev J. B. Robinson entered upon rectorship of five years. In April, 1879, the present rectory was purchased.
 In 1884, Rev 6alph H. Bowles, then deacon, entered upon rectorship of nearly six years. On July l, 1885, in the parish church he was ordained to the priesthood by Rt Rev John Will Hams.
 For some years the parish had been able to have minister of it's own only by substantial aid from the Mission ary society. So in 1890 it united again with St Paul's church, WOodbury, and for five years enjoyed the spiritual
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