The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-12-19
WILL GIVE FREE LIBRARY.
Bishop Murray TO Make Present to
Town OF Homecoming, Md.


Bishop Murray. Coadjutor Bishop of
Maryland, is going to give a free library
TO Homecoming. Allegany County, Md.
his native place. The library will be
known as the Murray Library, and will
be installed in the new parish house to
be erected next spring by the rector
and vestry Of St Peters Church.
1t is early to begin planning for the
/ church congress. which is TO convene
| in Washington April % and to remain
in session for four DAYS. Nevertheless,
the Rev. DR. c. H Babcoek has been
| in Washington 10 see Bishop Harding
and the authorities Of the ID. A. r. hall,
and he has secured the use of Cont
mental Hall for four days. beginning
! April ..
] Copies OF the Report Of the joint COM
mission on the revision OF the tables OF
! sermons have reached the clergy OF the
/ diocese. The commission was appointed
/ in 1897, at Richmond. and organized by
| the election of Bishop Talbot, of Beth
/ lehem, as president. and Rev. DR. Alfred
/ Harding as secretary. When the latter
/ in 1903 became Bishop of Washington he
was asked by the commission still to
| continue 10 serve as secretary, which he
| consented To do. The value of the new
table is 10 be tested by use. Its final
| ratification viii be before the next con-
vention.
The ladies Of the Reetors Guild Of
1 Epiphany Church gave their annual
/ luncheon Thursday and Friday of last
week These luncheons have so contrib
uted both to the prosperity of parochial
undertakings and 10 the social life of the
/ parish that they have become an integral
part of Epiphany Church's parochial ma
chinery.
In addition to this forthcoming visit 10
| the archdeaconry meeting. by his recent
address TO the women of the auxiliary
Bishop Kinsolving stirred up fresh inter-
est in his work in Brazil. He and his
cures inhabit a land of magnificent dis
| tances. Some conception of its vastness
/ is shown by the establishment OF a new
mission IN his district at Penambuco
| whereby. he says the church's firing line
/ Is extended 1000 miles, Recently a re-
quest for prayer books came from a
/ handful OF Christian folk at the head
| waters of the Amazon. They travelled
] 800 miles before reaching those 20 whom
/ they We're consigned.
When the Rev. Dr. Warner. rector OF
/ Trinity Church, New Orleans, died the
other day New Orleans lost its foremost
citizen and its greatest power for good.
/ He had taken so notable a part In civic
affairs and with such remarkable success
/ that no wonder the major and represent
alive men OF the city attended the funer-
! al services and the highest officials in
church and state die him honor. Wit
ness this from Archbishop Blenk, the
Roman Catholic Archbishop of New Or
| leans: The message announcing the
/ Il Of ba Tr-
/ had on me the effect of a thunderbolt
from clear sky. I deeply deplore his
/ death. New Orleans has undoubt-
eddy lost one of her noblest workers in
all that made for the walfare and honor
OF the entire community
For few weeks-not years, as one of
our papers had 1.-THE was rector of St
Stephens Church. Philadelphia, some
eight years ago. What caused his sud-
/ den resignation of this great parish is
not known. Rumor had it that, accus-
/ toned to warmth of affection, the change
seemed great At any rate he resigned
suddenly and went back 10 Trinity, which
had called no rector, and received him
with open arms.
! The fifty-fourth annual report of the
| Society for the Increase of the Ministry
| has just made its appearance. Aside
! AAtth d toiilf AbNLipn Ol % lAVlal Oiit VI our
! churches-St. James, Capitol HiIl-and
one from a clergyman of $50 the society
| seems to have received no aid from this
diocese. Yet whereas the gain in the
number of communicates for the six
teen years closing 1905 was 6e7 per cent.
and of parishes and missions Sc per cent
the increase in the number of clergy
was only 2s.5 per cent.
Bishop Canning Moore Williams, senior
/ OF the American bishops and at one time
Missionary Bishop of China and Japan.
died last week at Richmond Va. There
| are still three other bishops named Will
! Jams in the American episcopate, name
1 ly, the bishops of Marquette, Nebraska,
and Michigan, besides two or three in
the English or colonial episcopate.