The Washington times., 1920-07-16
Passing of DR.. McKim
Ends Spiritual Life
Fruitful for Church


The Rev. DIR. Randolph Harrison
McKim, for thirty-two years rector OF
the church OF the Epiphany in tins
city. died suddenly yesterday at Bed
ford Springs, Pa, where he was spend
ing his vacation.
The news OF his death was entirely
unexpected. though he had been In
III health for several months. and
came as a great shock to hundreds
OF friends In this city,
He was stricken with apoplexy
while on the Bedford Springs Golf
Club grounds yesterday morning and
died shortly afterwsrd.
Mrs. McKim. who was with him
when he died, is bringing the body
to their home. 1929 X street north
west. and will arrive in Washington
this afternoon.
WAS APPROACHING IS.
DR.. McKim would soon have been
seventy-eight years old. He Is sur
vived by his wife, Mrs. Annie NJ. C.
Mckim: two daughters. Mrs. Rather
Inc j. RathboRe, OF Florence, Italy,
and Miss Eleanor McKim. OF Denver
Colo; and by sister. Miss Margaret
T. McKim. OF Baltimore.
Dr. McKim was one OF the leader
In the Episcopalian church work a.
America and was the author OF larE
number OF books on the church. !
the last years of his life he had bee
strong advocate OF military Pre-
paredness and universal militar,
training. He was an honorary vic
president OF the Navy League and fire.
auently ofnciated as chaplain at its
meetings.
He was a veteran OF the civil war.
enlisting in the Confederate army as
a private, serving under Gen. Joseph
T.. Johnstone and Gen. Thomas j.
Jackson. He was commissioned first
lieutenant and assigned to the staff
OF Gen. George II. Steuart. Before
the close Of the war he was made
chaplain OF the Second Virginia cav
airy. under command OF Col. Thomas
T. Muhord, Gen. Fitzhugh Lees brig
ade.
HELD IMPORTANT POSTS.
He held many important posts in
the diocese OF Washington. He was
frequently adviser to the late Bishop
Satterlee. He was deeply interested
in the National Cathedral project, and
was for many years canon OF the ca
thedral chapter. He was one OF the
candidates to succeed Bishop Satter-
ftt upOH inc utdtH. ne was
elected dean of the Virginia Theolog-
ical Seminary in 1907. but declined,
preferring his work here. He was one
of the orators in the tercentenary
celebration at jamestown Island in
1907.
After witnessing and taking part
IN the healing mission conducted by
DIR. James Moore Hickson in April Of
this year, he decided to undertake the
work OF healing himself, believing
that faith cures of today were repeti-
tions of the cures affected in Biblical
days. He was the first local clergy
man to conduct a healing mission, and
has received the thanks of nearly
one hundred persons who have de-
clared themselves distinctly helped,
physically and spiritually. by his
work.
TOOK UP HEALING.
SO successful was this mission that
the Bishop Of Washington appointed
special diocesan committee to di.
rect the healing work here. and as a
result it became a diocesan rather
than merely a parish matter.
DR.. McKim was born in Baltimore
April 10, 1912. The outbreak of the
civil war found him preparing TO
Sinia. which he left to take UP arms
for the Southern cause.
In 1863 he resigned his commission
as first lieutenant and aide-de-camp in
order to prepare himself for ordi-
nation as a minister of the Protestant
Episcopal Church, to which he had
devoted himself when sixteen years
old. This action was stimulated oy
his knowledge of the great need for
chaplains in the army. Among mis-
fellow students was the Rev. Edward
II. Ingle, now assistant pastor of
Epiphany Church.
DR.. McKim was ordained deacon by
Bishop Johns. of Virginia. May IL,
1864. in Trinity Church. Staunton, Va.
He was ordained priest May %, 1866,
by the same bishop. and after minis
tering in Baltimore and Portsmouth.
Va. he became the rector OF Christ
Church, Alexandria, Va. where he
served eight years.
CALLED TO TRINITY.
He was then called to Holy Trinity
Church, Harlem, N. Y, where he serv-
ed during the next eleven years.
After two years at New Orleans, he
accepted the rectorship of the Church
of the Epiphany in this city. in De-
cembe, 1888.
His ministry was spent amid the
strain and stress OF days when ma
terialism threatened to down philoso-
phic thinking, when the ritual agita-
tion of 1872 caused the schism of the
Reformed Episcopalians. In all this
controversy DR.. Mckim bore his full
share. always standing for the con-
servative side.
He was active in the organization
OF the Church Temperance Society, in
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