Evening star., 1922-03-19
THE RAMBLER WRITES OF BISHOP PINKNEY,
ONCE PROMINENT IN AFFAIRS OF MARYLAND

Branch Chapel. Mr.. Pinkney's prede-
cessor. the Rev. Mr.. Smallwood, had
built within the limits Of Bladens-
burg village a small, plain building.
and there he had hold services. Mr..
Pinkney continued services in that
little structure until he built st.
Luke's Church at Bladensburg. The
family of John c. Herbert, living at
Evansville, had erected a little build
ing there for use as chapel. and in
| 1t both Mr.. Smallwood and Mr.. Pink
ney held services
In 1898 the Rev. Mr.. Pinkney was
married to Miss Elizabeth Lloyd
| Lowndes. One Of the notes which
the Rambler has Of this lady is that
, she was a granddaughter of Edward
Lloyd. one time Governor Of Mary
| land. without knowing the facts,
but by looking over the Lawndes
epitaphs copied in the burial ground
of Addison Chapel. the Rambler as
sumes that Elizabeth Lowndes was
a sister of Benjamin Ogle Lowndes.
who was born in 1911 and died July
| IL. 1897; that they were children OF
Francis Lowndes. who departed this
life April 81. 1915. after a long and
painful Illness. which he bore with
Christian fortitude. aged about sixty
| two years and that Francis was a
son of Christopher Lowndes, who
| departed this life on the Sth day of
January. 1886" and of Mrs. Eliza
! beth Lowndes, relict Of Christopher
! Lowndes, Esq, who departed this life
on the 18th day of September. 1888. in
the sixty-third year of her age"
! IA X * X
| COMMENTING on the marriage Of
~ the young mipister and Miss
! Lowndes, DIR. Hutton wrote: THE dis
! parity in age. the lady being much
older than himself, seemed not at all
| to have entered into his views as III
, any way calculated to lessen the full
! ness And happiness of his welded
| life For nearly forty years, till death
| severed the sacred tie that bound him
! to his beloved partner. it was hap
py married life, unmarried by sin
gle incident or instance to interrupt
| its peaceful serenity. Nothing could
exceed the delicacy and tenderness
| of his wife's devotion to the comfort
and happiness of her husband.
Bright. cheerful. of peculiarly sweet
disposition and possessed of manners
most winning and refined. she threw
an exquisite charm around his hearth
and home.
| AS a minister William Pinkney was
| church builder. Under his ministry
! St Johns Church was built at Me-
chanicsville. Montgomery county. in
| 1s45; st. Philips. at Laurel, in 1885,
I St. Luke's, at Bladensburg. in 1856,
and st. Johns, at Beltsville. in 1857
You remember that in writing Oh
yansville last fall the Rambler told
| of finding some old graves and hear
ing from some old colored people that a
| church once stood there: And that
he figured it out that if any church
had stood there it must have been
an Episcopal church before the
building of ST. Johns at Beltsviile:
And that he could find no one in that
neighborhood who had heard that
! there was an Episcopal place OF wor-
ship at vansTille? Well. the answer
is in the little chapel which the Her
bert family built at Eansviile, ana
in which the Rev. Mr.. Smallwood heio
services before William Pinkney
/, came to serve the parishes OF ST.
| Matthew and Zion in the spring OF
1886.
(, The Rev. william Pinkney was
called to Ascension Church. wash
| ;neton, in 1856, ana it is the RAM
bler's thought that he succeeded the
Rev. ]. W. French. who had been
appointed chaplain at the West Point
Military Academy.
| He remained as rector of Ascension
| Church, which came to be generaiy
called "Dr Pinkney's church,. until
1870, when he was elected assistant
bishop of Maryland One of the i'm
nortant things in Bishop Pinkney's
! life transpired while he was rector OF
Ascension. That was his controversy
with Bishop Wilmington in the mat
ter of prayers for the success OF the
| Union troops. That controversy
! broke out in 1852, and II the Rambler
; felt that his readers would be IN
terested in it he would review it.
Bishop Wilmington was strong In his
belief that the cause of the northern
states was right. Those sentiments
were called loyalty to the Cnion-'
DR.. Pinkney was southern man, his
sentiments were southern, and many
members of the congregation OF
Ascension Church were in sympathy
with the cause of the southern states.
DR.. Pinkney refused to offer up spe-
cial prayers for the success OF the
troops on either side, but he offered
hundreds Of eloquent prayers for
peace.
One word more. Though Blenheim
; has been described as Bishop Pink
ney's home for fifty years. he had a
Washington city home during his rec
| torship Of Ascension. He generally
| boarded with members of his congre-
cation. and the Rambler believes that
he boarded longest with Misses Anne.
Alice and Kate Burgess. Those girls
| lived first on H street, then on New
York avenue and then on Connecu-
cut avenue. You remember them?
! OF course. you do. They kept school
, for girls, and at one period In the
history of that school they called 1t
| "Pinkney Institute"
RAYS From Human Hand.