Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-03-28
Rev. Bullitt Member Of One
Of States Oldest Families

his ministry. Whe he came here the
number of each was equal
Rotary Club Member
The Rev. Mr.. Bullitt is a member
of the Harrisburg Rotary Club, being
the representative of the city's clergy
in the club He is one of the most
popular men of that organization, and
is frequently called upon for short
talks at the meetings.
He is one of the few ministers i'm
the city who is familiar with Hebrew
lie studied that language he says So
that he could work out for himself
theological questions to which salts
factory answers can only be secured by
ability to understand the original text
of the Old Testament He studied at
Harvard Divinity School from 1906 to
1907.
The Rev. Mr.. Bullitt is one Of the
most scholarly men in the city. In
addition to his collegiate course at the
University of Pennsylvania, he stud
led law in his fathers office and at the
university law school for three years.
and after fifteen years work in the
church returned to his studies at Har-
ward. His early life was one of wide
travels. AS boy of Z, he spent a
year, in France learning to speak the
language with fluency. He has visited
Europe a number of times, usually for
q few months in the summer. He
has been to the Pacific coast three
times, and in nearly every State in the
Union except those of the Southwest.
He spent some time on ranch in the
West when young man.
His First Charge
Mr. IBullitts first charge was the
parish of st. Simeon in textile dis
trict of Philadelphia 4 After a few
years there he was made assistant a
Holy Trinity Church. Bishop McVic-
kars church at that time. From here
he was sent to the mission at Parkes-
burg where he had remarkable sue
cess. His next field of activity was
in Massachusetts where he served half
a dozen small parishes during his
course of study at Harvard and for
three years after that. He was rector
of the Church of st. John the Evange-
list at Bingham, Mass, when he was
called to st. Andrews in this city
Mr.. Bullitt and his family have lived
in their new home at Twenty-third and
Chestnut streets less than two years.
The house was built under his per-
sonal direction. 1t is surrounded by
much land. and the clergyman has
gone in for amateur gardening. He
has stocked his garden and grounds
with seventy-five trees and between
six and eight hundred shrubs.
Brilliant COnyersatiOnalist
His principal recreation is golf. He
is a good horseman, but is'not athletic
| by nature. He is n brilliant converse
tionalist and can speak eXtemporane-
ously on almost any subject. His var
led experiences as college and society
man, lawyer, traveller, rancher and.
clergyman furnish him with a fund
of incidents and anecdotes.
He reads his sermons, only when he.
| has something he wants to say in just
a certain way. He is not q sensation :
alist in the pulpit, but is not a sticlSler
! for dogma or tradition. He says he is
| open to new ideas in modern life or
the new thought, but he accepts only
those things which he can reason out
for himself.
At st. Andrews, social center work
plays large part in the activities Of
, the people. The gymnasium and rec
reation rooms are open to all neigh
bors whether members of the church
or not. A mems Bible class recently
organized and is now receiving the at
tention of the rector, and 1t has rapid
lly grown under the influence of his
teaching.