The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-04

| | said:
 Take thou au tn ority to execute tn,
 office of Deacon in the church O | God committed unto thee: in the nam' l Of the Father and the Son and thu
 Holy Ghost. Amen" Then he deliv
 cred to each of them the New Testa | ment. saying:
 Take thou authority to read th' | Gospel in the church of God and tC
 preach the same If thou be thereto H.
 censed by the Bishop himself" | To Rev. Mir. Clark, who was being 1 advanced from Deacon to Priest. also
 kneeling and with the Bishops hands
 upon his head. the Bishop said: Take thou authority to execute the
 office of Priest in the church of God l now committed to thee by the innposi- ton of our hands; And be thou faith
 fnl dispenser of the Word of God and ot His holy sacraments: in the name
 Of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost. Amen"
 Then was delivered to him the Bible
 the Bishop saying:
 l Take thou authority to preach the l word of God, and to minister the holy
 saeraments in the congregation where
 thou shalt be lawfully appointed there l unto"
 1 Rev. Wyatt Hunter Brown read the
 gospel as found in St. Luke xii, s5. The Nieene Creed was said and the communion was concluded. a large
 number of the congregation partaking. | With the last prayers and tho bene-
 dietion this interesting and solemn | service was concluded.
 The term of service as deacons Is l one year. unless. for good reasons shown. in the judgment of the Bish op
 1t is shortened, but not to a period less than six months.
 Rev. Willis c. Clark, ordained as | Priest, was born In Montgomery. April 21. 1881. and baptized in St. Johns | Church by Rev. H. Stringfellow D. D. He Is son of the late Francis B | Clark of the Mobile bar. a lawyer of
 note and author of several law books, and May Banks Clark, daughter of
 Mrs. Eliza Banks of this city and granddaughter of Alabama's historian, the Colonel Albert J. Pickett. MT.
 Clark Is descended on his fathers side directly from Willis Gaylord and Lewis Gaylord Clark. editors of the Knicker- booker Magazine, W. Y. His grandfa- ther, Hon. F. B. Clark of Blrmingh am,
 was the first President of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. He received his preparatory education in the Barton Academy. Mobile and in Detroit, Mich. In 1900 entered the junior class of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute at Au- burn, where in 1902 he was graduated | in electrical engineering. In the fall 1 of the same year he accepted a posi- | ton with the General Electric Com pany at Schenectady, N. r., where he
 worked for nearly year, resigning hls
 position to study for the ministry. His
 theological education was obtained at | Sewanee where he spent three years in | the Seminary. Mir. Clark at college l was a member of the Phi Delta Theta | fraternity and of nearly all the college l organizations
 A year ago, in St. Johns Church Bishop Beck with ordained him to the | Dlaconata and put him in charge of the churehs missions in Southeast Ala bama. He married Miss Lottie Ivy Hibbler l In July, 1907. On January 1 of this l year he was called to be the assistant l of St. Johns Parish which cure he now holds.
 wyatt Hunter Brown who was or
 dained to the Diaconate was born Tn
 Eufaula, Ala. his present home. Fen- ruary IA, 1884. His parents are MT and Mrs. E. L. Brown. of that city. He is closely related on both, sides to | prominent families in East Alabama | the Pughs. Claytons and Hunters. He
 was a student of the Eufaula school
 and graduated in the High School there 1 He entered the University of the South m loU1 anu EGGGiNco tttG uN6ACV VI B. A. in 1905 and was the valedtctor- ian of his class. He has studied for
 nearly all of the past three years in
 the Theological Seminary at Sewanee and will within the next few days re- ceive the degree of B. D. For several
 months he has been with the Rev. MT. Cobbs of St. Johns church and conduct l ing some missionary work. He will
 remain in Montgomery and have rha nf a PrRtfVflla.
 holding services there every Sunday,
 also doing other work in this vicinity Among those who were in the gallery for colored people at St. Johns yester- day were a large number of the com
 municants of the church of the Good Shepherd to whom Mir. Brown has min
 istered for several months past and who are greatly devoted to him. Rev. Morrison E. Bethea was born
 on November 27. 1872. at Marion. South
 Carolina. He Is the son of William Walters Bethea, a Hugenot and Sallte
 Morrison. a Scotch Presbyterian. He
 was educated at the South Carolina State Normal School and the Presbyter-
 ian College of South Carolina. lie taught school at Featsvs.1e S. C.. for several years. He then became assis-
 tant superintendent of State Agencies
 of the New England United Life In surance Company, which business he followed for four years. when he came to Alabama. He pursued the same business in Selma for one year and
 then in Dothan for three years. Hav- ing resolved to enter the ministry. he
 resigned his position with the Insur
 ance Company and moved to Auburn.
 November 1. 1907. and entered upon the study of Theology. He received a H.
 cense from Bishop Beckwith and
 preached every Sunday while pursuing
 his studies of Theology. He. there
 fore, passed his examination for ord
 ination as deacon after only six months study Tn the meantime. on February. 1908. he organized a mission He also built the church in Dothan.
 He left Montgomery yesterday after his ordination to preach at TuskeKee last night. He will be located at Au-
 burn. where there is a good church and besides the local congregation a large number of students from all parts of Alabama.
 These young men have the prayerful interest of a host of friends. They have dedicated their lives to the holy works of the ministry and being pos sessed of ability. energy. health and genuine piety a bright and glorious future is before them. Bishop Beck with left yesterday afternoon for Birm- ingham where he held confirmation ser vices last night at the Church of The Advent.
 Confirmation at St. Johns.
 At each of the visits of Bishop Beckwith to St. Johns church for con firmatfon this year the weather Nnrnu 1kA