Middletown transcript., 1916-03-18
ST. ANNE'S CHURCH
Boys and Girls Ought to Attend the
Confirmation Instructions

Bows and Girls Ought to Attend the
Confirmation Instructions
CHRISTIAN LIFE DURING LENT
March 18th. The Second Sunday in
Lent.
Divine service:-8 A. M, Holy Com
munion.
1920 A. NJ, Morning Prayer, Litany
& Sermon.
11.45 Sunday School session.
7.3OP. M. Evening Prayer & Address.
March 22nd. Wednesday, Evening
PRAYER and Sermon, by the Rev. John
Emory Parks, of Newport, Del.
March oath, Friday, $50, Penitential
Office & Meditation.
The Bishop of the Diocese, visits St.
Anne's on Sunday evening, April the
second.
The Rt. Rev. F. ]. Kinsman, D. D.,
Bishop of the Diocese, expects to visit
the Parish on the evening of April the
second, at 7.3O, to administer the Rite
of Confirmation. Confirmation instruc-
tions will be given in the Church on
Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, at
four o'clock.
CONFIRMATION
All the boys and girls in the Parish
over twelve years Of age ought to at
tend the Confirmation instructions.
After all the prayer-book has nothing
to say about age. The title of the Con-
firmation service is this: The Order Of
Confirmation or laying on of hands upon
those who are baptized and come to
years of discretion. Discretion is the
ability to decide between right and
wrong. The average child possesses
that ability long before he is twelve
years old and is certainly old enough
to receive the gift and influence of the
Holy Spirit in Confirmation. Let nol
parents be stumbling blocks in the way
of the children coming to Confirmation.
On more than one occasion when the
Rector has asked a child why he does
not come to the Confirmation class, he
has received the reply, Father or
mother does not want me to be con-
firmed until am older" and then as it
often happens when the boy is older he
does not want to be confirmed. At the
end of the Baptismal service we read
eye are to take care that this child be
brought to the Bishop to be confirmed"
The instances of Confirmation in the
New Testament are Acts 8-17 and Acts
10, 1-6 The qualifications for Confir-
nation are: to have been baptized, to
have come to discretion, to know the
Creed, the Lords Prayer, the Ten
Commandments and to be sufficiently
instructed in the other parts of the
Catechism.
THE LENTEN SEASON
Lent is quiet spot in the Christian
life where you should stop to mediate,
and breathe the fragrance of Gods
love. 1t is the season in which to ex-
ercise the Christian graces you possess,
and to gain those you lack.
There is no time in life when blessings
descend so richly upon the soul as in the |
quiet, meditative hours of self-examin-
alton, when alone with God the soul |
learns more of duty, and finds ways to |
fulfill it-of privileges, and enters upon |
their enjoyment.
You will realize the awful character |
of sin, and will shun it as you would |
deadly poison.
You will learn how "to keep the body |
UNDER" how to break every evil habit |
that has gained control over you; and |
will rejoice over the conquest of self. "
You will gain deeper insight into
truth, and better knowledge of God and
your relations to Him.
Your character will be purified; your
spiritual power will be increased; your
Christian life will be filled with richer
experiences of prayer and devotion.
Looking upon the Cross, you will realize
that you have been bought with a
price,, and that your talents of mind
and body belong to Christ-your time
influence, money, life-all are Christ's;
and you will more fully consecrate them
to His service.
Your heart will be touched with SYM
pathy for your Redeemer; and you will
love Him with an intenser love, and
give Him the allegiance of your life.
SOME DoNT's
Don't say Easter Sunday. A Church
man keeps Easter Day.
Don't say Sabbath when you mean
Sunday, Remember you are not Jew.
Don't say Episcopal Minister, Church
clergyman is better. The only Epis-
copal minister is a bishop. Episcopos
being the Greek for bishop.
Don't call yourself an Episcopalian,
but Churchman or Church woman.
Don't speak of your parish church as
the Episcopal Church. Give its local
name, st. Anne's Church.
Don't say you are going to church to
hear Mr.. preach, or Mrs. sing.
We go to church to worship God.
Don't speak of. those assembled in
church as an audience. Congregation
is the word to use.
Don't speak of the church as a vol