Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-17
Cigars were passed around
 AIher$ L. Pitcher Toactgnas ter.

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 Albert L. Pitcher Toaetmaster.
 After the menu had disappeared with amazing rapidity, AIheTt L. Pitcher the toastmaster, called the assembly to order. He said he deemed il great honor fcl- his little church, St. Marks,
 in Mystic. to le chosen toaStlnaster or the banquet.
 Miss Annie Taft, was then heard in an excellcntly rendered vocal selection which ws.:s heartily eltcored-
 Bishop Brewster Speaks. Bishop Brewster was tie first speaker. He said he was pleased to be present in such q gathering. The men in this part of the diocese have felt the impulse to get together and form a church club, said the bishop. Continuing: It is great thing for the iaynen to get together and form club. You are going to run it. The church has much to expect from the laynen. Bishop Brewster then emu merated several of the things the lay men of the archdeaconry can do- Two | of these are to support the Connectl- ] cut Churchman and the pension fund. 1 He said he club was not going to be | used as an excuse for begging, but l that these are things that are pressing on the church today. He spoke, of the l clergymens' stipends, saying that a salary of $500 would not go as far to- l day as it did five years ago, because of | the high cost of living. In closing, Bishop Brewster said: I want you to consider how much can be done by
 getting together as a club. Let us get | out of our individuaiism and get into | the life of the church.
 l Tn his remarks Bishop Brewster has referred to Bishop Acheson as a man, said the toastmaster after the applause l had subsided. In our parish we know he is a human man, because on his | first visit to our church he gained the | admiration of our parish1oners. He is a man of needs, not only words, and lI take pleasure in introducing him as | the second speaker.
 Bishop kcheson on the Pension Fund.
 sion fund, it's origin and growth, and then told of the call to Africa. When l the church WAS small it was a com paratively easy thing to look after the disabled and aged clergymen, he said. In those days small sum went much farther than it does today. After re- viewing the various plans in connec- ton with the raising of a pension fund, Bishop Acheson explained the present plan, which will allow clergy
 men to retire at the age of 6s years.
 He spoke of the great active interest
 taken by Bishop Lawrence in making the pension fund plan a success. To-
 day three and a half millions of dol lars have been raised and there re-
 mains a million and half which must
 be raised before next March. The
 raising of thls fund will mean that hereafter there will be no appeals for money for disabled or aged clergymen or for their widows. Almost every
 man who enters the ministry is the ison of a 1ayman, said the bishop, and you men would be poer business men
 not to teach your children to look eut for the future.
 Do you know what thought was
 the greatest thing discussed at the
 convention in St. Louis. asked Bishop
 Acheeen. The call of Africa to this church. believe in the day of 5udg-
 ment one of the things the Almighty
 will care about iS When that cal came to the ehunnh. what did yeH dag' Rishap Aehesoa spoke of the great
 tnroads Mnhammedanism has made h
 Africa and said that tf rhlngs are moi
 aIteFed there That iA ten years Africa . will be lost te the church of God. Af- rica Is calling for redemption. The question Is, win they beeame beastial- } 1zed or GhristianiEed.
 We are called te q big enterprise in this church Of GeA. an enterprise thai
 calls for the giving of ourselves. auI souls, and 1t is geing % make hetteg