Middletown transcript., 1915-11-20
ST. ANNES CHURCH NOTES

fore Advent.
Divine Services: Morning Prayer,
Litany, and Sermon 1890.
Sunday School session at AS.
Evening Prayer and Address z. 80.
Service on Wednesday evening at
7SO.
Thursday being Thanksgiving Day,
Services will be:
Holy Communion at A.. M.
Morning Prayer. Thanksgiving ser-
vice, and Sermon at 1870.
The Offering on Thanksgiving Day
is for the Babies Hospital and Day
Nursery Wilmington.
Meetings: Guild on Thursday after
noon at 2 2o'clock at St. Annes Rectory.
The Junior Auxiliary on Friday after
noon at four O. clock in the Parish
House.
Service at St Mary's Chapel, Town
send, Del. Sunday afternoon at $50 P.
M.
CLEEGYMANs' RETIRING PENSION FUND
Women hereafter will be permitted
to vote at parish elections in the Pro-
testant Episcopal diocese of New York,
provided the parishes give consent, as
a result of action taken in recent con-
vention of the New York diocese.
Women, may not, however, have a
place In the church vestries. The con-
vention also gave its approval to the
clergy pension fund, on condition that
Five million dollar reserve fund be
raised. 1t was stated that this practi-
cally assures a nationwide adoption
of clergy pension, New York having
been the largest diocese not already
IN favor of the project. The pension
scheme allows for retirement IN 60
years of age, disability, widow S
pension and allowances to minor
children.
MINISTRY FAILS TO LURE
Prof. E. D. Grizzel, supervising prin-
cipal of the Milvile High School, told
the Board of Education recently that
he was very much surprised to learn as
a result of a canvass of $50 students as
to what vocatons they intended to fol-
low for their iife's that one of them
expressed his intention of studying for
the ministry. He said that this was
more surprising from the fact that Mill
vile, is known as 1.-The City of
Churches.
SOME GENERAL WHY'S ABOUT SERVICES
We have been asked recently the
the reasons for certain customs pre-
, vailing in the Church and from time tc
time we shall try to answer them in
this column, Some questions you wish
answered to the Rector.
l. Why do you kneel in prayer or
: entering the Church? For precisely
the same reason that the guests at {
social gathering go to the host and hos
tees, on entering the rooms, and gree
them. Politeness demands this specia
mark of respect for those into whose
: home you have come as a guest. AnC
e in the same sense, politeness requires
d that at once on entering the church We
e indicate our reverential regard for the
Divine Being into whose presence VIZ
S have come. Kneeling in private devo
n tions as we reach our pew is the form
). of etiquette which the Church has Ion,
i used to express this our bounden re
d spect for God.
: 2. Why do people remain in quiet
e ness until the worship begins? Th
r thought behind this question is VIII,
are ! hurch people so cod and so lack
e ing in welcome for strangers and visi
a tors as they enter the church; why d
y they not rush up to them and go acros
II the aisle and speak to them and gree
= them? In other congregations this
IS done; why do you not show this sam
# cordially in your churches?
J. For answer, ask yourself if you thin
! it seemly for people to be engaged in
II buzz of conversation, when they ar
Il congregated fora burial service. Is
II coldness to sit in silence then? ''Why
no, " would be the reply of all refine
natures, in the solemn presence @
ID death it is fitting that AL should be 81
lent rejecting on their lives and tn
in eternity which sooner or latter is to b
a theirs. All talking and social greeting
3. are entirely out of place, as the caske
IF is before the friends and acquaintance
e, People of good manners all feel thi
o. and act accordingly. Well this is til
Id way Churchman feel about the Sacre
" Presence into which they have come i
Of the House of Prayer. To them it seem
t a time not for worldly conversation bu
r, a time for quiet reflection; for peopl
to go to other pews until there is a
r. undertone of talking and whsperin
in all through the church seems very irr,
he weren't. We bel eve in extending a we
m come to alllat she close of worship
% the vestibule. But true politeness,
he it appeals-to us, requires that on ente
he ing His house we all shall be still ar
know that the Lord is God and we a
he His creatures responsible unto Him Fl
ng the conduct of our lives
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