Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-30
EPISCOPAL LAYMEN
TO CONVENE IN CITY
$500 Leaders to Attend An
nuaI Convention of Broth
erhood of st. Andrew.

the General Convention of the Episco'
pal Church.
MANY of the bishops and clerical ano
Law delegates to the General Conven'
ton will participate in the brotherhood
sessions. The convention will be ma.
tional conference on evangelism anc
will sound the spiritual keynote OF the
convention.
Since its organization as years ago
IN Chicago. not only have many promi-
nent Americans been members of the
Brotherhood of ST. Andrew, but the
organization has spread all over the
world wherever the Anglican Church is
represented.
Mr. Houghteling, the founder. vas a
elsssmate end close friend OF John
Havs Hammond and also a friend OF
chief Justice William Howard Taft,
who graduated from Yale one year
shead OF him. Theodore Roosevelt,
While not an Episcopalian, was at one
time interested III the brotherhood,
Clifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania,
Stephen Mather of Cleveland and Law
renee Sands, president of the FIRST Ma
tional Bank Of Pittsburgh, were active
in the brotherhood.
Up to that time the men In the EplS-
copal Church had nothing to do except
to serve OIL the vestry, which meant
an interest only in money matters. the
brotherhood opened new era for the
church out of which have come man
teachers for the Sunday school, superln-
tendents for the Sunday school, leaders
in the missionary movement, vestry-
men who are interested in spiritual as
we'll as temporal affairs.
Flow Into Ministry.
Another interesting by-product has
been the constant flow of men into the
ministry from the brotherhood. One OF
Americas leading educators said some
years ago that practically the only point
of supply for clergymen in the Middle
West was from brotherhood chapters.
1t is said that Bishop Freeman acknowl-
edges the part which the brotherhood
had in sending him into the ministry
and the Right Rev. Ernest M. StlreS.
Bishop of Long Island. is another man
vino saws he was influenced in the same
way.
The brotherhood began as parochial
guild in St James Church, Chicago
On st. Andrews day, 1883, II young
men, with the approval of their rector,
Rev. w. H. Vibbert, led by the late
James L. Houghtel1ng, agreed 10 follow
the example set by st. Andrew IN
bringing st. Peter to the Christ. They
adopted the two rules which have been
tested now by As years of success. This
organization was called the st. Andrews
Brotherhood, and from this small begin
ming the present worldwide organlza-
ton has been built. By 1886 there were
So parochial brotherhoods In active
service and a central committee OF man.
agement was formed. ;.
Wherever the movement spread IL
rapidly gained recruits and each MEM
her an active one pledged to the rules
of PRAYER and service. At the first con-
vention of the Brotherhood OF st.
Andrew, held in Chicago in October,
1886. it was made nationwide in Its
scope. and the Rev. r. w. Springer,
deacon of Grace Church, Chicago, was
made its first president, and the central
committee became the national cQunch::
Mr.. Houghteling, the founder. served
as president from 1888 to 1900. Edward
H. Bonsall. a foremost business man of
Philadelphia, was elected president in
1910 and has continued in that office
to the present time.
The work of the brotherhood, dating
from its inception, has been in and
with and for the church. In all the
churchs program it has participated
most actively The stranger, the sick,
the Indifferent and those in hospitals
and prisons have been helped by BROTH
erhood men, They have labored in
many parishes to increase the attend
ance on the part of men, and to bring
men to baptism, confirmation and the
holy communion. Lay readers as well
as clergymen have come from their
ranks. For the past 10 years the BROTH
erhood has worked hard for the resto-
ration of the family altar and more
vital expression of religion in the home.
Point to Largest Session.
Since the earlier conventions of the
brotherhood a number of great gather
ings have been held. That in Phila-
delphia in 1904 brought together 2, IVA
delegates, the Archbishop of Canter-
bury being the guest of honor. accom-
panied by George Anthony King. then
vice president of the brotherhood IN
England and later its president. There
are signs that the forty-second natlonai
convention, to be held in Washington,
will be the largest and the most ettec-
tive convention in the history OF the
brotherhood.
A splendid part of the work of the
st. Andrew Brotherhood is In its Junior
u.
wears of age are enrolled in two dlVl-
sions. that for junior boys aged IL to
Is. and advanced juniors aged Is to
81. They have the same rule for
prayer and service as the senior broth
erhood. and the junior branches have
masculine leadership and are largely
self-controlled by the boys themselves,
under the guiding hand of director
The Junior brotherhood was formed
in Christ Church, Watertown, Conn,
in 1898. At that time very little oppor-
tunity was open even to church boys
for association of this kind, and the
Junior idea took root at once and has
been a constant feeder ever since to the
Senior Brotherhood of St. Andrew.
The outstanding religious feature Of
the brotherhood convention will be the
great open-air service in the amphi-
theater of Washington Cathedral on
Sunday October 7, at pm. Not only
the men Of Washington but women and
children as well are invited to this
service. and steps have been taken to
have groups of Boy and Girl Scouts,
Woman's Auxiliary and Girls Friendly
Society members and delegations from
the Sunday schools of the diocese pres
ent at this service with its inspiring
subject. "A Call to Witness" presented
by the speakers, former Senator George
Wharton Pepper of Pennsylvania and
DR.. Rudolph Boiling Teusler. director
ot the st. Luke's International Hospital
o. Toxic, Japan.
Other high points of the senior Sec
ton program of the convention are the
following events: Visit to Unknown Sol.
dier's Grave at Arlington, October 5
Wnsre &reath will be placed; the open.
ing dinner at the Mayflower Hotel with
Commissioner Sidney F. Taliaferrc
As chairman. Samuel Thorne of New
York. POSTMASTER and where the pre-.
siding bishop of the Episcopal Church
in this country. Most Rev. John Garner
Murray, will give greeting. The two
vile G. Bennett, Bishop of Duluth, anc
Prof Samuel l., JOSH of Dartmouth