The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-17
COMINGP MISSIONS
Episcopal clergymen of the City Issue Circular Re
 garding Plans.
BISHOP BREWSTER WRITES
Asks That Undertaking May Receive Serious and Earnest Co-opera-
 ation from All.

The following circular has been is sued by the Episcopal clergymen in connection with the missions to be carried on in this city by the Fathers of the Order of the Holy Cross. These missions will begin with work in the outlying parishes on January s, g, and 10:
 Dear Brethren:
 The clergy of our New Haven par ishes, out of a loving desire for the conversion or perfection of many souls, and especially for those the Great Shepherd has committed to their care, have asked the Fathers of the Order of the Holy Cross to conduct a general Mission in this city, They have con sented to do so, and have selected as tho time, from the twelfth to the tWen- ty-sixth of January.
 The first question some will ask Is, What is a Mission?" TheSone object of a Mission is spiritual life. T am come" says our Blessed Lord, that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. A Mission is meant to b9s an importation of this life to all who attend 1t. To the careless and back-slidlng the life must be recovered; in the fruitful and earnest it must be promoted and made
 
 part and lot in it, since all, from the sinner to the saint, may obtain help through it's message
 Again it may be asked, What is the need of a Mission? Are not our own parish priests able to deliver the mes dinary services?" We reply that a Mis- sion is an extraordinary effort to win souls Mission priests come with a special message of grace; to tell with a voice new to those who hear it, the old tale of Gods love, the remedy for mans sin.
 Upon what, It may be asked, does the success of Mission depend? II depends on prayer. Therefore the is- sue Is very much in the hands of the lay-people They are to the Mssioners as Aaron and Hur upholding the hands of Moses, who could only obtain, through such assistance, the victory for Israel There must be constant pray CT for ourselves and for others. No one can be saved who cares little if his peighbor is lost.
 Hence there will be no use of the Missioner unless you work to bring others to the Mission. The careless the profligate will not come of theil own accord to the Church or to the Mission. Each must remember that he is his brothers keeper, and be. In some sense, a Missioner
 The Mission begins not only on Jan uary 18th, but on that day when the first prayer Is offered for Gods bless ing upon it. Nor will the Mission end on January the twerty-sixth. Unseen perhaps, its effects will continue and never be fully known till the Day oi Judgment.
 ,,,y As you try to bring others to the Mission so try even at the cost oi some self-denial, to be present your self, lest perhaps you miss just the message that would be blessed to youl soul, and 1t be said of you, He was not with them when Jesus came"
 May we all of us priests and people | in the deep consciousness of our soul, needs, cry out to Him, as blind Barti- David, have mercy upon us.
 Your Servants in Him, c, Brinley Morgan, William F. Downes | William A. Beardsley, George A. Ol.
 eott, Charles Otis Scoville. Franklin Knight, James. DeWolf Perry Jr.
 Robert Bell, J. Frederick Sexton
 mack, Floyd s, Kenyon. Anson Phelps
 Stokes, Jr.. H. H. D. Sterrett, Fred
 erie M. Burgess, Harry o. Bowles
 The purpose of the clergy of New Haven to have a Mission in the city has my hearty approval and I trust the undertaking may receive the serious and earnest coo operation of the people of the several parishes. 1t is, and 1t shall be, my prayer that with the Missioners may come the Holy Spirit of wisdom. of love, and of power; and that their efforts in the name of our Lord may be abundantlN blessed, to the rescue and the strengthening of many souls, the upbuilding of the Church. and the genuine good of the entire community.
 CHAUNCEY B. BREWSTER,
 Bishop Of Connecticut Hartford. Conn, November 18th, 1907.
 Further Information regarding the Mission will be sent you later, with a Full list of services The plan contem- plates services in the outlying parsh- seEtration of the Mission at three cen raj parishes, Trinity St Paufs and Christ Church