Middletown transcript., 1917-11-17
ST. ANNE'S CHURCH NOTES

Sunday, November 18th. The 24tl
Sunday after Trinity.
| Services: 1890, Morning Prayer
Litany and Sermon. 11.45, Sunday
School session. 1880, Evening Prayer
and Address.
The Glass under instruction for Con-
frmation will meet at the Rectory, on
Monday afternoons, at quarter after
four.
THE BISHOP TO VISIT THE PARISH
The Rt. Rev. Frederick J. Kinsman,
D. D., Bishop Of the Diocese, will visit
St. Anne's Parish, to confer the Rite of
Confirmation on Sunday evening, No
vember 25th. Please bear the date in
mind and let everyone be present at
this service The public is cordially in
! vited.
We all are indebted to Mr.. Charles
w. Bush, who so ably presented the
work the Y. NJ. C. A. is doing for the
enlisted men. And several already
have contributed to the same Mr..
Frederick Brady, is chairman of the
committee for this locality, and checks
may be made payable to Mr.. Ohio Now.
land, ,Jr., and sent to Mr. Brady.
1t canbe said without exaggeration
that in public Importance no public fund
of whatever sort, not even excepting
the Liberty Loans and the Red Cross
Fund. exceeds in urgency and import
ance that which is being raised for the
Young Mems Christian Association.
The "Huts" of the Y. M. C. A.,
whether in form Of permanent head
quarters in camp or of the tents and
dugouts on the fighting line, are de-
signed to bring to the soldier the init
mate touch of loving human comrade-
ship and sympathy, of help in hours of
suffering and stress, of amusement and
instruction in the tedious hours of wait
ing that form so large a part of his life
in the service. The work of the Y. M.
G. A. provides an offset to the destruc-
tive effects of war upon the moral
fiber of the men engaged in it-in a
word, it is creating morale, and Napol-
con said that morale among the factors
making for success in war is as three
to one
This Sunday, the Oath, after Trinity,
ends the cycle of Trinity Season. In
the Gospel for the day we find an illus
tration of the faith of man co-opera
ting with the will and power of Al
mighty God, in the two cases of the
ruler whose daughter was dead, and of
the woman who was so sorely afflicted
for twelve years, and was healed
through her faith, in the mere touching
of the hem of our. Lords garment.
"My daughter is even now dead, said
the former, ''but come and lay Thy
hand upon her, and she shall ive:" eff
may but touch His garment, said the
latter, 81 shall be whole" These in
stances of recovery from disease and
death are devotionally applied in the
Collect: where the expressive phrase,
: the bands of those sins, which by our
frailty we have committed" has a
double reference: first, to the bondage
Of sin in its spiritual sense; and, Sec
ondly, to the physical evils which bind
us around with chains that are forged
by sin. ST.. Matthew, IX:18-26.
ADVANTAGES OF FORMS OF PRAYER
Solomon says, ''Be not rash with thy
mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty
to utter anything before God." St.
Paul advises Let all things be done
decently and in order" A liturgy pro-
notes reverence. 'In the multitude of
counsellors there is wisdom. The
Prayer Book is the wisdom, not only of
many / ersons, but of many ages 1t is
growth, not composed in one day or
by one man. AS generation succeeded
generation, what was true and lasting
was preserved. In it we sing the same
praises, sung by the saints of old. HUI
man wants are ever the same, hence
the same prayers are offered as of old.
The liturgy rolls up to heaven, "as the
voice of great multitude, as the voice
of many waters. and as the voice of
mighty thunderings," for it comes
from many nations, people and
tongues. y The Church is form; the
Greed and the Ten Commandments are
forms. Jesus Christ ''took upon Him
the form of servant" By form the
whole round of Christian truth can re-
ceive its due share of attention, and
the people be better edited. Many
hymns are forms of prayer We can
not sing extemporaneous hymns. The
Prayer Book is called the Book of Com
mon Prayer because all use it. and all
may have part in it.