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J f t Among the earlier members of the Church of England in Portland are men and women whose memory is fragrant for wisdom, devotion, zeal and enterprise, and whose example will, with God's blessing, exert a quickening, salutory influ- ence upon our present and future Church character and life. Around this Church and Parish entwine endearing asso- ciations—its records are eloquent in lessons of loyalty and piety, redolent of virtues, which have made the Church prosperous and happy. It will be instructive as well as tender and affecting to review the memories of long-gone days— to recall in loving remembrance the names of many who, even though in a humble way, worked zealously to lay firm and deep the foundations of their beloved Church. In reviewing the past we are preparing history for the future, and while ministering to personal or local sympathies and interests, may it not be hoped that a wholesome and lasting benefit will be conferred, though it be indirectly, upon the Church at large? In collecting and preparing material for this Souvenir, the Editor has been greatly assisted by several friends, and is happy for himself and on behalf of the readers of this little book to express appreciative thanks for many inter- esting communications. Special thanks are due to Jos. W. Lawrence, Esq., of St. John, for valuable data (not found in the old Parish (6) 6 Prefatory Note. registers) especially those relating to the histor}' of Grace Church and the early history of St. Luke's. Thanks are tendered also to Mrs. William W. TurnbuU (niece of Canon Harrison) for the discriminating and sympa- thetic sketch of the boyhood and early days of the first Rector of St. Luke's, pp. 32-36; to Sir Leonard Tilley for the accurate and vivid account of the period covered by his vestry clerkship, pp. 57-62 ; to Mrs. W. Harrison Tilley of London, Ontario, for the tender personal reminiscences of her honoured and beloved husband, pp. 70 and 76 ; to Mr. Fred. H. C. Miles for the pen and ink sketch of Grace Church ; to Mr. Samuel G. Kilpatrick for the pen and ink sketch of old St. Luke's ; to Mr. Emil Scholl, photographer, for the free gift of the vignette portraits of the present vestry of St. Luke's ; to all who by suggestion and encouragement have enabled the Editor, in the midst of regular Parish duties, at all times multifarious and pressing, to carry out this work which to him has been an enthusiastic labour of love, and which it is hoped will be found to all its readers, a source of mental stimulus, of spiritual edification, of loyal remembrance of " the years that are past " and of fond antici- pation of even better days to come. L. G. S. Eastertide, 1889. A ^ i. ILLUSTRATIONS. ., St. Luke's Church, . Grace Church, .... The Rev. B. G. Gray, D. D., * . ' The Rev. J. W. D. Gray, D. D., . The Rev. Gilbert L. Wiggins, The Right Rev. John Inglis, D. D., The Most Reverend the Metropolit'in The Hon. Charles Simonds, . Sir Leonard Tilley, . The Rev. Canon Hiimson, The Rev. W. Harrison Tilley, The Rev. Wm. B. Armstrong, Old St. Luke's Church, . . ' * ' The Rev. F. H. Almon, . The Rev. L. G. Stevens, . Interior ^New. St. Luke's Sunday School Room H CI r, .^~. . . ' PAGE Frontispiece. 10 It « u u << it it (East), ) (West) Organ, Group, Wardens and Vestry, 19 22 30 42 52 56 58 64 66 88 90 94 96 104 106 184 199 (7) f " ^t prospfritg of a cfjurrf) as of a nation liepcnba largclg on its coniujtion toiti) tl)c past. (irl)c aaumulateb kssons of its bg-gone Ijistorg arc its rici) inl)critancc." The Eight Rev. J. B. Lightfoot, Lord Bishop of Durham. First llhurch of En0lattb in Portlantl. I In 1825 Rev. B. G. Gray, Rector of St. George's Church, Halifax, was appointed Rector of Trinity Church, St. John, and the year following, his son Rev. J. "VV. D. Gray, then Rector of Amherst, his assistant. From 1823-7 the little flock at Portland were with- out a minister, but, having their Bibles and Prayer Books, they met together, if not in some " upper room," yet like the Primitive Church at Jerusalem, for lay services, while they gladly welcomed the Rev. Messrs. Gray in their occasional idsits. In 1827 the latter commenced regularly to hold evening services in Portland. CONTRACT. Proposals will be received by the subscribers for building a Church in the Parish of Portland, near Fort Howe, agree- able to a plan to be seen at the store of John C. Waterbury, Esq., until the first day of November next. October 24, 1828. B. G. Gray, Charles Simonds, |- Trustees. J. C. Waterbuky, ) ) Grace Church was a very humble and unpretentious structure— "Little Grace Church " it was aft'ectionately designated. (9) ■Mi T 10 First Church of England in Portland. The Kite for the Church (south-east corner of Simonds and High Streets, directly opitosite the old Hazen house) was the gilt of Charles Simonds.* OPENING OF THE CHURCH. "The Su day evening f services, hitherto held at Mr, Waterbury's, Paradise Row, and Mrs. Merritt's,! Indiantown, are to be transferred to the new Episcopal Church, which will be opened Sunday, August 16th, 1829, at six o'clock in the evening." At these opening services the Church was so crowded that many were unable to enter, and were obliged to leave. Rev. B. G. Gray preached from John 4, 24 : " God is a Spirit, and they that worship Him must ivorship Him in spirit and in truth.'' The service was read by Rev. J. W. D. Grav. * It may be also a deserving recognition of his generosity, as well as breadth of churchnianship, to state, in this connection, that the ground for the Methodist Church and Parsonage (erected 1829) corner of Portland and Chapel Streets was the gift of Mr. Simonds. The present building is the third edifice on this spot, the first and second having been destroyed by tire. t The first Church in Canada to hold continuous evening services. X Israel Merritt, her husband, was a native of New York, and one of the early settlers of this Province. He died April 4, 1826 ; aged fifty- seven years. Tlieir son, Robert, died September 11, 1822; aged six years. Mrs. Merritt, whose maiden name was Isabella Watson, died 1831, and was interred beside her husband and son in the "Old Burial Ground," St. John. He left one daughter, who married William Boss, one of the early river steamboat engineers. The only one of the latter's family now living in New Brunswick, is Mrs. Horncastle, wife of Joseph Horncastle, of Indiantown. cb le) [at u fal h, GRACE CHURCH, 1829-1838. I First Fort(an(> Temperance Society Was organized in Grace Church early in 1832— Charles Simonds, President,— with a membership of sixty-five. At the second meeting, August 6th, the President stated that the organization of the Society was due to the persevering efforts of the Rev. B. G. Gray. At this meeting forty-five new members were added. At the Annual Meeting, 1834, the following were elected officers : Charles Simonds, Esq., Robert Payne, . John Duncan, . William Ruddock, . President, Vice-President, . Recording Secretary. Treasurer. COMMITTEE. Rev. Gilbert L. Wiggins, James Joice, Rev. William Smithson,* John Owens, William Eagles, Moses Tuck, Robert Chapman. At this time there were 420 members. Ptolemv Lombart, James P. Payne, William McKee, Robert Stevens, * Wesleyan minister. (11) Scucrcnb Gilbert ILcatcr Wi^gina. '^ After graduating, 1821, at King's College, Windsor, Mr. Wiggins, consequent on the absence of Bishop Stanser in England, was ordained Deacon at Quebec, by Bishop Mountain. Appointed as a Missionary of the Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts, at a salary of £200 : the Parishes of West- field and Greenwich, on the River St. John, were his first charge. Never of very robust health, he felt un- equal to the duties devolving upon him in ministering to these extensive Parishes. After laboring there for about ten years, he took an affectionate farewell of his Parishioners in the fall of 1833. His sermon was from the text Acts 20, 25 : "And now behold, I know that ye all among whom I have gone preaching the King- dom of God shall see mj' face no more." The sermon was printed with the following introduction : " To My Dear Friends — The Parishioners of Westfield AND Greenwich : " In committing to the press the following pages, though at your particular request, I am only doing what my own feelings had suggested. I have been desirous of leaving vith you some visible token of pastoral affection and remembrance ; and perhaps none could be more suitable than a discourse delivered under such circumstances, and on a subject cal- culated to awaken such solemn and affecting recollections. With many prayers I commend it to the blessing of the Holy Spirit ; and by that Spirit you will permit this little messen- ger, in the name of one who can no longer personally address (12) First Church of England Sunday School in Portland. 13 you, to bring to your remembrance the truth I have en- deavoured to teach ' When I was yet tuith you.' "Always with unchanging affection, « Boston, September 7, 1833." " ^' ^- ^^^gins. Mr. Wiggins accepted the less arduous mission of Portland, holding Sunday services morning and evening. Fujsf ChurcK of En^lanb Sunbav School in Portland "VVas organized in Grace Church, December, 1833, with three teachers and six scholars. The first Children's Service was held on the afternoon of October 8, 1834, with 129 scholars present, when a book was given to each. This w^as the pioneer Church of England Sunday School * in New Brunswick, if not in all Canada, whose sessions were held in the afternoon — a custom now almost universally prevalent. The First Report of the Sunday School (a pamphlet printed by Henry Chubb, Market Square, Deceml)er, 1834,) showed the number of scholars to be 211, with 14 teachers. In the Second Annual Report of the School, after noting its healthy growth and promising condition, *The following teachers from St. John taught in Grace Church Sunday School : N. S. Demill, Noah Disbrow, Mr. and Mrs. Ebenezer Stevens, Mr. and Mrs. William Mills, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Patton. 14 First Church of England Sunday/ School in Portland. Mr. Wiggins, who acted as Superintendent, concluded as follows : " Something has been suggested, if the means could be obtained, with regard to erecting another Church, and con- verting the present one into a School House. Its situation as a Church is by no means desirable, nor will the ground belong- ing to it admit of its being materially enlarged. Meanwhile the population is rapidly increasing ; and even at present we cannot urge the attendance of the Sunday Scholars at Church, owing to want of room ; for were they all to attend divine service, many of the present Congregation would necessarily be excluded. But we must hope that it will not be very long that we shall be under the necessity of deploring an evil of such serious magnitude. The Lord, if He please, can dispose the hearts of the rich to consecrate their wealth to His ser- vice. How much of it is by numbers continually being wasted in extravagance, how much hoarded up by the grasp- ing hand of avarice, which might build Churches and School Houses, and thus be the means of communicating to multi- tudes that knowledge which they live and die without the opportunity of receiving. Such unfaithful stewards may say, in a spirit of independence, 'My wealth is my own,' not recognizing that rightful Sovereign who has declared 'The gold and the silver are Mine.' The things of time and sense may now indeed present a thick veil, darkening the under- standing and blinding the conscience ; but how different will these things appear in a dying hour, and in a realizing view of the great account ! There are many, we cannot doubt, to whom it is only necessary that such wants should be made known, in order to appeal successfully to their feelings of liberality. May their number be greatly increased! And may that gracious Being who has the hearts of all in His hands, continue to dispose those to whom He has given of this world's goods, to devote a part of their substance for the ad- vancing of His cause, in bringing the outcast and ignorant to receive instruction in those great truths, by which, though r J^ Grace Church. 16 «l» ^ * poor in this world,' they may become * rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which He hath promised to them that love Him.' "Gilbert L. Wiggins." In August, 1835, a petition was forwarded to the Bishop of Nova Scotia, representing that " the said Church is now ready for consecration and we pray that your Lordship will be pleased to consecrate it accordingly." The petitioners were : Gilbert L. Wiggins, Robert Boyle, J. C. Waterbury, Charles Humphreys, Edw. N. Vieth, Thos. McMackin, Robert Payne, Charles Sorell, James P. Payne. (Sracc Chuvdi Consccrateb. 4- "In the name of God, Amen. "Whereas a Church hath been built in the Parish of Portland, in the County of St. John and Province of New Brunswick, etc., etc., "Now we, John, by Divine permission, Bishop of Nova Scotia and its dependencies, and having Episcopal jurisdiction in the Province of New Brunswick, do by virtue of the authority to us committed, separate said Church from all profane and common uses, and do dedicate the same to Almighty God and Divine Worship by the name of Grace Church, and consecrate it for the celebration and performance of Divine Service, and do openly and publicly pronounce, ' decree and declare, that the same ought to remain so separ- ated, dedicated and consecrated forever, by this our sentence r 16 Grace Church. or final decree, which we read and promulgate by these presents. "Witness our hand this fifteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, and in the eleventh year of our consecration. ' John Nova Scotia." 4m^ Immediately following the consecration, Wednesday afternoon, 3 o'clock, September 15, 1835, the solemn rite of C 'Onfirmation (the first in Portland) was admin- istered to 35 candidates. January 28, 1835, a petition was presented to His Excellency Sir Archibald Campbell, Lient.-Governor of New Brunswick, to the Legislative Council, and the House of Assembly, humbly shewing that Grace Church was a Free Church,* wholly supported by voluntary subscriptions, that a Church so built and supported did not come under the protection of those laws of the Province, relating to the appointment of church oflicers, and praying for an Act to provide " that those persons in this and the adjoining Parish who subscribe and pay either to the support of the clergyman or to tlie Church fund the sum of one pound and upwards annually, be thereby qualified for the oflices of Church Wardens and Vestrymen, and to vote in the appointment of the same." The following were the petitioners : John C. Waterbury, Robert Payne,* Samuel Dalton, John W. Smith, Robert Boyle, Solomon Hersey, Thomas Ruddock, Francis L. Ruddock, William Mills, Henry Gilbert. * The first Free Church of England in New Brunswick. \l Griirc Chid'ch. 17 49^ <^ At tlie Session of 18:U>, an Act i»sissepoint his father, who was then Rector of St. George's l*arish, Halitax. L^pon their doing so, the Rev. B. G. Gray accepted the ap- pointment. The following year the son resigned the Rectorship of Andierst, and joined his father as Curate or Assistant of Trinity Church, St. John. The elder Dr. Gray resigned his Rectorship in 1840, and his son succeeded him as Rector of the Parish. The duties which devolved upon the father and son emhraced, in addition to that of St. John, the Parishes of Portland, Simonds, and Saint Martins, which latter they con- tinued to serve during ten years — the younger Dr. Gray living to see the same ground afterward occupied by the services of eleven regular oiftciating clergymen. During his Rectorship northern and southern St. John were set ott as separate parishes — St. James (1851), 22 Grace Church. Rev. John Armstrong,* Rector; St. Marks (1853),t Rev. Geo. M. Armstrong, Rector. For many years Dr. Gray was one of the Board of Governors of King's College, whose Convocation con- ferred npon him in 1846 the degree of Doctor of Divinity. % Himself a distinguished college graduate and deeply interested in the higher education of young men, as- well as effective in pleading its cause, Dr. Gray wa& requested in 1846, by Bishop Inglis and the Governors of King's College, Windsor, to visit England for the purpose of soliciting funds to increase the College endowment — a visit productive of encouraging results. Would that to-day we had more of such loyal hearts and true, who if not by calm persuasiveness, then in burning zeal and honest indignation, could arouse in seemingly ungrateful and apathetic hearts a long lost sense of loyalty and of practical working — not merely professing — love, to the dear old mother — the Alma ]Mater — who so fondly and patiently nurtured them ! Shatuc upon the now grown and stalwart, and often pecuniarily independent sons who would allow that feel)le mother to go a begging ! Dr. Gray's enormous and exacting labors as pastor,^ preacher, speaker, debater, theological and controver- * Father of Eev. Williain Armstrong. t St. John's Church ("Stone Cliurch," so called from the fact of it» being at that time the only stone church in the city) was opened Sep- tember 11, 1H25. X Dr. Gray was also an honorary " Canon " of Christ Church Cathed- ral, Fredericton — a title, however, that he was seldom called by, his people and friends preferring to call him " Doctor Gray." He was also one of the Bishop's Examining Chaplains. «4* ati THE REV. J, W D. GRAY, D. D. Grace Church. 23 sial writer, proved too much for a constitution never very robust. For several years before his death his health was irreparably shattered. While on a visit to his son at Halifax, and seeking a change of air and scene, a temporary rest from his labors, he entered, on February 1, 1868, into the presence of his Master, into that eternal " rest that remaineth for the people of God." ■' Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, even so saith the Spirit, for they rest from their labours and their works do follow them." On Sunday morning, February 9, 1868, Canon Harrison preached in Trinity Church, St. John, a funeral sermon (and his last sermon in Trinity), in memory of Dr. Gray, from the text : Job 5, 26, " Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn Cometh in his season." Dr. Gray was a man of marked ability and of uni- versal prominence. In a crowd of men he would have been singled out as " a man among men " in the highest sense of that abused phrase. Upon a lithe and evenly- balanced figure was a well-shaped and scholarly head, with a calm searching brown eye ; of a dignified, courteous mien, he was a man of comparatively few words, but those always wise and weighty and to the point. To a childlike simplicity he united a singular knowledge of men. His judgments on the characters of those with whom he came in contact were swift yet sure. All shame, all pretence, all mere outside cover- ings seemed to fall at once before that discerning eye ; and although his opinions were invariably announced with great caution and leniency, yet it was clear he understood perfectly well the real character of those whom he knew. His intuitive quickness of judgment was aided by the accuracy of his discernment. In his 24 Grace Church. shrewd penetration, and at the same time lenient esti- mate of men, he [tossessed the oomhined wisdom of the serjtent and the innooenee of the dove. An nnnsnallv v.ell-reainions on all eeelesiastieal qnestions were hroad and deep. As a chnrehman he was stauneh, conservative, and liheral withont hein^: laxly so. As a preacher he did not distinifuish himself l)y preaching now and then a great sermon, hut hy a constant succession of good ser- mons. It was his custom to preach on the Lord's Day what he had prepared during the week whether his auditors were manv or few. He had no rainy-dav dis- •■■■ i/ «' courses tor rainy-day audiences, and sun-shiny sermons for fair-weather congregations, hut he gave (and in this is a salutary lesson for all preachers of the Word) to the few who would disregard the storm, or heat, or cold what he had prepared for the many who were afraid of the Sundav frowning of the elements. His prevailing emotional tone was that of firm conviction, which convinced the hearer that what the preacher was uttering Avith his lips he helieved in his heart. In his deep anxiety to move his people to love God and keep His comnumdments, in tones condnning deep pathos with fearless earnestness, he would often cry aloud, " thus saith the Lord," and again in pleading per- suasiveness and with heaming face would invite them, "Be ye reconciled to God." Being familiar with the Bihle he readil}' quoted proof texts, and his hearers heard more of the word of God than the mer»> text of his sermon. Dr. Gray was a faithful while genial preacher. His sermons, always good and finished, were especially so during the latter years of his ministry. i 11 Grace Church. 26 •I And vet tliev wore not elaborated witli too imicli • a. care. Dr. (Tray looked ui»on a sermon as a means and in- strument to secure a rayers, the sermon, the hymns, were nicely adjusted portions of one well-constructed whole. In the language of the musician, he struck a key-note, so to speak, and held it throughout the service. As a pastor ])r. Gray was diligent and faithful ; as an administrator he i)roved himself al»le to meet every emergency. As a speaker at the meetings of the Church Mis- sionary {Society, or British and Foreign Bible Society, he was ever forceful and fascinating. As a controversialist, he did not forget, as so many others do, to be both just and ffentlemanlv. Nor did he tail in that indispensable quality for a good contro- versialist — perspicuity in language, lie might have appropriated the language of an old divine : " There is nothing in the world, next to the favour of God, I so much desire as to be understood." Dr. Gray was the founder and for manv vears the editor of the Chnrch Witness ; he was the author of a very learned and voluminous work on Infant Baptism^ and the writer of man}' able theological and contro- versial pamphlets — of the latter, one notable for its exact, exhaustive scholarship, the keen and penetrative 26 Grace Church. li) logic that ferretH from itts lurking place a dishonesty of statement or subterfuge of argument, the virile grasp of a gigantic subject — all of which make it a model piece of controversial writing ; the pamphlet is entitled " A Letter* to Members of the Church of Ennland hj J, W. D. Grail, D. D., Hector of the Parish of St. John, N.. B. In reply to a Letter from Edmuml Maturm, M. A.^ late curate of St. Paul's, Half ax, N. S.'' Of tliis " Letter " Bishop Medley in his charge delivered in the Cathedral, Fredericton, 1859, said : "Mr. Maturin's first pamphlet has already met with a full and convincing answer, written by one of our own body, to whom I desire to return my own thanks publicly for his well-timed and very able defence of our Church." In 1859, the Rev. Edmund Maturin, Curate of St. Paul's Church, Halifax, published a letter assigning his reasons for (putting the Church of England and setting forth what he conceived to be " the claims of the Catholic Church" — meaning by that misnomer the Church of Rome. It was a letter containing, as Dr. Gray says in his reply, " a most violent attack upon l*rotestantism in general, and upon the Church of England in particu- lar," and in which he " invited the parishioners of St. Paul's to follow him in his erratic course." The following resolutions were unanimously passed at a meeting of the Church Wardens and Vestry of Trinity Church, St. John, held Thursday evening,. February 6, 1868 : K, * This was tlie last work, outside of the pulpit, from the versatile pen of Dr. Gra)', and written as he himself says in the preface " under many disadvantages." Grace Church. 27 ■ J J Resolved, That this Board in recording the death of the Rector of this Parish, the Rev. J. \V. D. Gray, D. D., would in all humility bow to the heavy affliction laid upon them. At the same time they would record their deep regret for the loss of a beloved Pastor, who for forty -two years ministered to the spiritual wants of this people ; who, himself grounded in the teaching of God's holy Word, upheld its authority in mat- ters of faith and practice, who ever maintained the Protestant principles of our Church, and commanded the esteem and love of all the people of God, who in his life time, by his general attainments, stood in the fore front of the Christian ministry, and in his death will long be remembered by the Church of Christ for his Catholic spirit and unswerving adherence to the truth. Resolved, That to conmiemorate the connection of the late Rector with this Church, a mural tablet, with an appropriate inscription, be erected by this Corporation. Resolved, That the Wardens and Vestry deeply sympa- thize with Mrs. Gray in the very heavy bereavement she has been called upon to endure. That whilst they in some measure realize their own loss by the death of their Rector they are conscious that a heavier blow has fallen upon her who is called upon to mourn the severance of the holiest tie of our earthly state, and they would utter the prayer that He who is the widow's stay will bless, keep and comfort her in her affliction. On the following Sunday, February 9, 1868, mem- orial sermons were preached in Trinity Church, that in the morning l)y the Rev. Canon Harrison, the evening sermon l)y the Rev. Geo. M. Armstrong. In accordance with one of the above resolutions, a mural tablet was erected in " Old Trinity," bearing the follomng inscription: fili t 28 Grace Church. Ericcted by the Corporation' of Trinity Church IN MEMf)RY OF (^l)e \\tx>. Jol)n iDilliaiu Dcring (&\\w, D. ID., 14 YKAKS Curate and 28 years Rector of the Parish of Saint John; a Native of Nova Scotia, and a Gr'aduate OF King's CoLi.ECiE, Windsor, N. S. UliciJ at Halifax, N. B., Scb. 1st, 18(i8; agcii 70 gears. !l "A ripe Scholar and an able divine ; an uncompromising defender of the Protestant Faith ; kind and courteous, he lived beloved and revered, and died universally lamented.^' In tlie graveyard of St. John C'hureh (three miles from Halifax) where Dr. Gray is buried, is a tombstone with the following inscription : BcD^. 1. to. p. (&Ya^, SI. ID., Eector of St. John, N. B., Botn a3rJ) Julg, 1797; Dieb Ist iTfbruars, 1868. !i He is not dead whose glorious mind Lifts one so high ; To live in hearts we leave behind Is not to die. \f' ficsiqnation of ilRcucreni) Gilbert L. Wi(jC|itt8. At a imctini; of tlie Wanloiis and Vestry lield Xov. 29, 1836, tlu' tollowin*; lottor was received from the Rev. Gill»ert L. AViggins and read: My Dear Friends : Tuesday, November 29, 1836. %f You need not be told tbat for some time past, owing to tbe state of my health, my pastoral duties, both in public and l^rivate, have been but irregularly performed. ... I expect, therefore, on the coming Sabbath to take my leave of the pulpit I have been accustomed to occupy I shall not attempt the expressing of my own feelings on this affecting occasion, but nuist be permitted to say that I can never cease to cherish a grateful recollection of the kindness which I have experienced from my beloved parishioners, during the period in which I have been permitted to minister to them in holy things. The liberality with which they have ministered to me of their earthly substance, and the regard which in so many ways they have manifested for my comfort, have been marked by a cordiality that could not fail of finding its way to the heart, and which has neither been unfelt nor unappre- ciated ; and I beg to assure them that although it should be the will of God that the endearing relation now about to be suspended should never be resumed, I shall not feel less deeply interested in whatever relates to their present and everlasting happiness. Your sincere friend and affectionate minister, Gilbert L. Wiggins. To astoral duties of Grace Church; Further Resolved, That iii the event of the rever- end gentleman carents were (Quakers, and who came with the Loyalists from Philadelphia. At the time of their nuirriage the young (Quakeress was but six- teen, while her husband Avas double her age. She became the mother of nine children — five sons and four daughters. William, the youngest, Wiis born after his father's death. Owing to this sad circum- stance and to the fact that he was rather a delicate child, he was more indulged than the t>thers and natm-ally became the i)et of the household. His mother often said that in the first hours of her bereavement, the thought of her unborn babe who le8 of that sect, her conscientious scnqdes prevented her from applying for the widow's pension, which was so much needed in those davs of earlv widowhood. " Xo," she wouM say. " I could not take that oath. I should have to swear that I am in actual want, and T never have been — we have always had enough to eat, and comfortable clothing, though plain. God will never forsake those who trust in Him. I can work, but I cannot ask aid from any but Him." And she did work, often going into the fields with her boys, sharing their toil, encour- aging them with her presence, directing and guiding them as best she could ; independently struggling along without that aid which might have been hers for the asking, and which so many other officers' widows unhesitatinglv obtained — manv of them in much bet- ter circumstances than she had ever seen. She prac- tised the strictest economy, and by precejtt and example c 34 Bevei'end WiUkim Hanns&ii. taught licr children those lessens of uprightness and independence of character for which they were always distinguished. William was a delicate boy, not strong enough, the mother tl^ought, for the hard work of the farm. "He must be kept at school" — a common mistake of parents with sickly children ; not realizing that continement in a schoolroom is much more injuri- ous than healthful outdoor life. Doubtless the mother's eye was quick to detect the bright intellect of her boy. Her motherlv ambition was kindled. He was the youngest ; he had never known a father's care. He must not l)e deprived of any advantage that was in her power to obtain for him. She could deny herself, but not this son. So William was kept at school while the elder brothers 'iiltivated the farm, and sup]>orted the familv. So long as the father lived the family attended the Kpis opal Church af Mangerville — the first (Miurch ediiice ever erected in the !*rovince. Et was s(mie six or seven miles distant from tiie Harrison farm, and occupied the same site on which the Mauger- ville (^hurch now stands. In those earlv davs stnmy; prejudices existed against the Dissenters. The children of the family were never [»ermitted to enter a dissent- ing place of worship, altlu)ugh the Methodist Chattel was within a mile of their home. After the father's death the mother united with the Methodists, and remained a faithful member of that denomination until her time of death, in 1856. Several members of her family also became members of that communion, among them Williani, who soon made known his intention of studving for the ministrv, and not long afterwards entered oji a three years" probation as a local preacher. Fn accordaiu'c with the regulations ot the Methodist body, students for the ministry were pro- Reverend William Hai^^ia&n. 35 hibited from marryiii«j: until after a |»rol)ationarv term of three years. It was during this period tliat the young preacher met his future wife. She was .lulia Merritt, daughter of David Merritt, P]s<|., whose sub- stantial residence is still standing at the south-west corner of Germain and Union streets, St. John. They were married March 27, 1829, before Mr. Harrison's time of probation had expired, and in <'onse(iuence the ardent lover was suspended. It was probably owing to this circumstance that he decided to return to the Church of his father. After reading Divinitv for a while with the vouuiiier Dr. Grav of Trinitv Church, St. John, hV went to England to [lursue his theological studies, and from there was sent as a Uiissionary to Demerara, West Indies. On Sunday, December 16, 1832, being the third Sunday in Advent, Mr. Harrison was admitted to the Order of Deacon, by the Bishop of Barbadoes and the Leeward Islands, he having pre- viously studied for Orders in the Church of England (\)llege, Barbadoes. He loved his work in that countrv, which was then under the ban of slaverv. He was revered by the coloured people, and wouM have remained on the Island Ioniser but tor the en- feebled condition of Mrs. Harrison's health. On the physicians declaring that she ctudd not live in such a dinuite, they were obliged to leave the Island, and took passage in a sailing vessel, arriving at St. John, with their three children — John, ElizaiK'th and Julia, October 17, 183<). Thev remained at tlic house ot Mrs. Harrison's father. Union and (iennain streets, until the spring of 1837. Mr. Harrison's first sermon, after his arrival, was preached in Trinity Church, St. John, from the text, Isa. 32, 2: "A man shall be as an hiding jdace from the wind and a covert from the 36 Reverend William Harrison. t K tempest ; us rivers of water in a dry place, as the sliadow of a great rock in a weary land." While having the vacant Parish of Gagetown under consider- ation, the I'arish of I'ortland, as already stated, became vacant, by the resignation of Kev. lace and I knew it not. And he was afraid and said, How dread- ful is this place ! This is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven." The offertorv amounted to £41 10s. Od. The sintr- ing was led by Mr. Warren Y. Smith. The following were members of the first choir of St. Luke's* : Ladies. Eliza Ruddock, afterwards married Mary Sullivan, " " EHzabeth A.SuUivan, " " Margaret Miles, " " Mary Miles,. " " Margaret J. Hilyard, " Margaret Walker, " " Louisa Wright, " " Margare't Snider, " " Ann Cunard. Jane Cunard. Charles Law ton. Robt. J, Leonard. Frank Smith. Charles Partelow. Benj. Knight. Wm. Knight. Simon Baizley. J as. Fairweather. John Davidson. * Several of the above sang also in Grace Chi ^ jh Choir. (39) fT 1^;. I i i; f 40 Ojjaiinf/ of St. Luke' a Church. Gentlemen. Warren Y. Smith, Leader (Tuning Fork.) John G. Tohin (Bass Vioi.) Noble Ruddock, Robert Sweet, Win. B. Pigeon, James Nevins, Wm. Kniglit, Frank Smith, Benj. Knight, Geo. F. Smith, Richard Dalton, Scjuire Manks. Til Arc'lideacoii Coster's Rojiort for tlie year 1838 to the S. 1*. G. Society, was tlie t'ollowiiiif : "Sunday, December 23, 1838, I preached the first sermon in a new Church, erected (without aid from the Society) in the Parish of Portland. The new Church, although erected wholly by voluntary contributions, is a spacious building 75xo0 feet, and cost more than two thousand })ounds. It owes its existence mainly to the zeal and exertions of the Hon. Charles Simonds,t a resident in the Parish and a bounti- ful contributor to the work. Chief Justice Chipman and other Churchmen in the City of St. John, gave it very liberal assistance." * Several of the above sang also in Grace Church Clioir. t October 19, 1840, Mr. Simonds deeded to the Lord Bishop of Nova Scotia the lot of land 100x120 feet ''whereon a Church called St. Luke's has lately been erected." This was the third lot of land generouslv deeded bv Mr. Simonds for Church purposes. ficu. Widiam Manison Qrbainei) a Priest. In his Report for 1840 to the S. P. G. Society, the Right Rev. .luhii Iiiu'lis, 1). 1)., Bishop of Xovu Seotia, wrote as follows : "At a large congregation at the Morning Service in Christ Church, Fredericton, Sunday, October 25, 1840, Messrs. Harrison and Sterling* were admitted to the Order of Priests. .... The testimony I received from the Bishop of Barbados, and my own knowledge of Mr. Harrison's praiseworthy exer- tions and exemplary conduct, left no doubt in my mind of his fitness for the office of a Priest." From the ])eirinninii- of Mr. TEarrisoii's ministry in Portland, December, 183»), until his admission to the office of Priest, 1840, the Holy Communion was admin- istered to the i»eople by one ot the clergymen of St. John (Mr. Harrison during those four years ])eing in Deacon's Orders) the liev. D. O. Gray, D. D., being the first and the last so to celebrate that office. *For the Rev. J. M. Sterling, Mr. Harrison entertained the warmest friendship. Appointed Rector of Maugerville, his early death brouglit sorrow to many, and was a great loss to the Church. He was an elo- quent preacher and taught no other doctrine "save Jesus Christ and Him crucified." " The memory of the just is blessed." (41) i i M III St. ILcukc s ChurcK LonsccratcJ). kSuiiduv, X(>voml)er 1, 1840, was ii ineiii<)ra])le day in tlie liistorvot'Trinitv C'hurcli, ^^t. Jolin,an. March 22, 1841, a Bill passed l>oth hranches of the Legislature, in which it was enacted : " That the said Church called St. Luke's Church shall and is hereby declared to he the Parish Church of the said Parish, and that the Rector of the said Parish duly constituted and appointed, together with the Church Wardens and Vestry of the said Church, so soon as they may be duly elected and chosen pursuant to the Acts in force relative to the election of Church Wardens and Vestrymen, and their respective successors forever shall be a body politic and corporate in deed and name, and shall have succession forever by the name of * The Rector, Church Wardens and Vestry of Saint Luke's Church in the Parish of Portland.' " It was further enacted : " That at least two hundred and fifty free sittings for poor persons shall always be left in the said Church." " And be it further enacted, that this Act shall commence and take effect on Easter Day, being the eleventh day of April next, 1841." (45) First Vcatrv of St. Luke's Church. At a meeting of the l*ew-h()l(lers of St. Luke's Church, helpointed Vestry Clerk. T i h r > i3isl)op of Nom Scotia's ICast Disit to Neu) Bvunswick. "Thui-sday, August 26, 1841, as we approa'hed the New Brunswick shore with smooth sea we saw a most calamitous fire * raging in Portland, by which seventy houses were burnt and fifteen hundred persons were deprived of shelter, of whom five hundred were so poor as to be unable to do anything for their own relief. After visiting various parts of the Province * At tliis time a fiiio large ship was on the blocks, in Messrs. Owen cS: Duncan's shipyard, nearly ready for launching. A workman who was carrying a heated holt to burn out a hole, dropped it accidentally from the tongs ujton a pile of shavings — a disastrous conflagration was the result. (46) Bishop of Nova Scotia. 47 t met the Clergy,* Thursday, September 9, at St, John, deliver- ing a charge in Trinity Church, which obtained their serious attention. Friday and Saturday servic'^;s were held at 11 o'clock and the rest of the day to business. "In Trinity Church, Sunday, September 12, 1841, at the Morning Service, Alexander Cami)bell and William Scovil f were admitted to the Order of Priests. Atler sermon by the Archdeacon, administered the Lord's Supper to the clergy. In the evening preached to a large congregation at St. Luke's Church, Portland, from the words 'Were there not ten cleansed ? but where are the nine ? There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger.' " In St. Paul's Church, Halifax, are mural tablets to the Kight Reverend Charles Inglis,^ first Bish()[> of * At this visitation 21 clergy out of a total of 2G were present — the only ones now living are the Rev, (Canon) William Walker and the Kev. Alexander Stewart. fThe Rev. Canon Scovil, Ph.D., wsis born in St. .John, April, 181G; died at Brighton, England, February, 1886. For a time he was Curate of Trinity Church, under the Rectorship of Dr. J. W. D. Gray, and for several years Rector of the Parish of Norton, Kings County. After resigning the Rectorship of Norton, he resided in St. John, and for 2n years held afternoon services at the Provincial Lunatic Asylum, then under the superintendence of Dr. John Waddell. This cpiarter of a century's labor was rendered cheerfully and gratuitously. During the latter yeara of his life he resided at Brighton, England. In the sum- mer of 1881 he made his last trip to Canada and while in feeble health, expressly for the purpose of officiating at the marriage of the daughter ot his old friend, Dr. Waddell, to the present Rector of St. Luke's. *The first Bishop appointed by the Crown to a British Colony. Born in Ireland, 1734. His father, grandfather and great-grandfather> were clergymen of the Kstablisiied Church. From 17")lt-64 missionary at Dover, Province of Delaware ; 17()4, assistant of Trinity Church, New York City ; 1777-83, Rector of the same ; August 1787, consecrated at Lambeth as Bishop of Nova Scotia, with ecclesiastical Jurisdiction over the whole of British North America. He laid the corner stone of old Trinity Church, delivered his fii-st charge to his Clergy and held his first confirmation in St. John, August 18, 1788. Died at Halifax, February 24, 1810, in his 82nd year, the r)8th of his ministry, and the 29th of his consecration. 48 Bishop of Nova Scotia. Nova Seotia, and to his son, tlie Right Reverend John Inglis, its tliird Bishop, hotli of whom undertook ex- tensive and laborious Episcopal duties in New Bruns- wick. (S:l)c Higljt HcDcrcn^ irol)n Inglis, D. D., BY WHOM THE ABOVE MoNTTMENT WAS ERECTED, HAS FOLLOWED HIS PIOUS Parent to the Grave, the inheritor of his virtues and op his zeal, in the cause of his Divine Master, after a faithful ser- vice OF MANY YEARS AS KeCTOK OF THIS Parish. He WAS CONSECRATED IN THE YeAR OF OUR LORD, 1825, BiSHOP OF THIS Diocese. Endued with talents of a high order, HE ZEALOUSLY DEVOTED HIS WHOLE LIFE TO THE DILIGENT DISCHARGE OF HIS SACRED DUTIES AS A Minister of the Gospel of Christ. He Died on the 27th of October, A. D. 1850, in the Seventy- Third Year of his Age, and in the Twenty- Sixth OF HIS Episcopate. In Erecting this Monument to their lamented Pastor and Bishop, the Members of this Church have the melan- choly satisfaction op uniting it with that ON which he himself so feelingly recorded the virtues of , his Father. .Jlii Removal of Grace (kKurcK. At a meetiiiij of the Vetstrv of St. Luke's Churcli, September 14, 1841, it was Resolved, That the Rector, Wardens and Vestry of St. Luke's Church, petition his Lordship, the Bishop of the Diocese, for leave to remove Grace Church, and to lease the lot on which it stands, the proceeds to be appropriated to the funds of the Parish Church. The Bishop haviuir given his consent, Grace Church edifice was taken down and removed to Wall Street, upon the land given by Chief Justice (^hipman, and at his own expense re-erected. It was long known by the name of the " Valley Church " ; as the Chapel of Ease to St. Luke's, it was named St. Paul's Chapel. July 24, 1842, it was opened for Sunday afternoon service. Evening Praver was read by Rev. AVilliam Harrison, and a most ap}»roiiriate and impressive ser- mon [(reached l)y Rev. J. W. D. Gray from the text, I*salm 27; 4, 5: "One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after ; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the davs of my life to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to enquire in His temjde. For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion, in the secret of His taberiuicle shall he hide me; He shall set me up upon a rock." Divine service was held bv the Hector of St. Luke's on Sun(biv after- noons till the year 18;")0 when the Rev. William H. Shore of Fredericton, (a graduate of tlie University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, and subsequently of the LTniversity of Cambriilge, England) took charge. Im- portant changes were then made in the interior of the c ^ (49) 50 Removal of Grace Church. Church, the hasoinont was fininhed, a Sunday Scliool opened, and an ort., Hishoj* of Fredoricton and Motro|»olitaii of tlio FA'dosiastioal Province of Canada, was horn in London, Kni::hind, on Dc'fcniht'r 10, 1S04. lie was tMhicated at W'adhani Colleij:t', Oxford, and took his dei^ree in 1827. Ho was ordained on Jnne 14, 1828, and in tlie same year l)ec'anie Curate of Sontldeiifli in South Devonshiiv, witii a leetureshij* at Beer, a neitflihourinif handet. In 1831 he accepted tlie incund)eney of St. John, Truro, and in 1838 lie was ai)|»ointeresent Cathedral was laid hy the Governor, Sir William Colehrooke, on Octoher 15, 1845. At the time of his Lordshi)>'s arrival in New Brunswick there were hut twentv-eiifht clero'vmen in the diocese — at present there are seventy-eight. At a meeting of the Rector, Wardens and Vestry of St. Luke's Church, held June 9, 1845, the following address was read and ado[»ted : To the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Freder- icton — My Lord, We, the Rector, Church Wardens and Vestry of St. Luke'S Church, Portland, N. B., have learned with sincere gratifica- tion of the arrival of your Lordship in this Province ; and (51) Jf^ 52 The First Bishop of New Brunswick: we hasten to express the great respect we entertain for the high and holy office to which you have been called by the great Head of the Church, and also our best wishes for your happine.^s and success in the important work in which you have engaged. We are bound to the Church of England, my Lord, by the most endearing ties, and we heartily rejoice in the prospect that is now presented to us, by the arrival of your Lordship on our shores, of having the benefits of that Church carried into every part of our Province in all their fullness and beauty — a blessing which we have hitherto but partially enjoyed, in consequence of the extensive charge over which our late highly esteemed Bishop was called to preside. Wishing your Lordship and your family every necessary blessing, we have the honour to remain, with sentiments of great respect, your Lordship's obedient servants. S. L. TiLLEY, Vestry Clerk. Bishop Medk'V ofticiatod in St. Luke's Church for the first time Aupist 17th, 1845, and administered the rite of CV)ntirniatif)n to a large number. The following extract from a hiographioal sketch of I lis Lordship m copied from the St. John Proijre^'s of September 15, 1888. After speaking of the "magical inHuenee of a great epoch " and its " golden companionship,'' the wnter of the sketch goes on to sav : "And so we can well imagine that even in the more distant Wadham College, many an influence came on the life of young John Medley, who entered the University in 1822. Coming before the Tractarian reaction had commenced, he found the sober school of Coplestone and Hawkins 'm tli ascendant, essentially Protestant in the highest a' ' »>»j.t -sense of scholarly research, and broad liberality one. From the university the transition was wide to th^ ired fishing village of Beer, just on the border of the Devonshir ... THE RIGHT RE 'bREND JOHN MEDLEY, D D. Lord Bishop of f hedericton ano Metropolitan. CjNbtChATtlJ 1845. 9iH«l 'it'\ !:■ ^il! The First Bishop of Neic Bfunswick. 53 coast. But the young curate brought that sturdy individuality and genial face which New Brunswick knows so well, to bear upon the descendants of smugglers and wreckers ; and * Par- son Medley ' is still talked about by some of the village grandsires, as they watch the matchless prospect across Seaton Bay. •* In Devonshire he found the very characteristics which suited him, the simplicity, humor, force, and a certain almost Caledonian clannishness of county folk, helped by a local accent, which, once heard, is ever loved and never forgotten. So, after a sojourn in Cornwall, it is no wonder that he returned to take the rectory of St. Thomas in Exeter, the ever-faithful city, where he labored until his call across the Atlantic, there to spend the strength and maturity of his life. To those who only know the new world, it is hard to describe the beauties of an old-world city like Exeter : the Cathedral, solid and almost lowly in its unassuming strength and beauty ; the old wood-carved houses in the High street ; the Guildhall, where Charles I. was welcomed bv the bur- gesses in the course of his daring western march in 1644 to intercept Essex ; the market day, when the quiet streets are filled with the country farmers, and re-echo with the cheerful Devonshire tones until the evening, when by each devious and hilly road return the belated visitors, after a jovial dinner at the ' ordinary ' the day not having been entirely passed in total abstinence, but whose safety is well ensured by the steady progress of the ' old mare,' ambling along the well-known road, the reins hanging loose on her neck, and the driver usually fast asleep. "What a change to New Brunswick, as it was in 1845! This only those can measure who know our province as it then was. For one coming from the old-fashioned life of Devonshire, and the cultivated society of Coleridges and Bullers, there was a wide chasm to pass in order to understand the settler of those days, divided between the rum-drinking bon-vivants and those whose religion was chiefly 64 The First Bishop of New Brunswick. comprised in a hearty hatred for other people's opinions. Anything savoring of sacerdotal claims, even of the mild pne-Tractarian type, was gall and wormwood, Rome and the Scarlet Lady personified. " For not yet had dawned upon them the truer and more scientific conception of Protestantism, as the practical embodi- ment of the principle of ' proving all things, holding fast what was good.' Erskine and Vinet and Maurice had yet to spend and be spent, to teach the world again what Luther and Zwingli had spoken to deaf ears. Nor had the idea of the Church of England, as a comprehensive body, rather than as an established and endowed sect, even entered into the minds of any but a scanty minority. " But let the dead controversies bury themselves ; and let us rather think of the Cathedral placed by the river side, forever afterwards his monument and his work. Of that moment when it seemed that it would be never finished, and how prayer was raised, and confidence survived, and then the generous and unknown contribution made all things possible once more. What daring scribe will venture to dwell with needless emphasis on what all who read this journal know as the living and acted sermon of a life-time, that embodiment of the christian and gentleman, blended so that each aspect is the necessary supplement of the other? Who will dare to repeat the genial stories which the good Bishop (not seldom at his own expense) loves to relate, and relates so well, of amusing experiences in his travels, and the records of inter- course with many minds, of which none left him unimproved, or uncheered by courtesy or friendly word? Who will speak of that perfect example of simplicity and domestic life, so needful above all in a land where wealth confers the chief distinction, and where ostentation too often passes for the hall-mark of social pre-eminence. " But these things we need not write, because they are known. His countrymen of this province know now, if they knew it not at first, and learned it but tardily, that they have ill Ill The First Bishop of New Brunswick. 55 among them one who in any century, and in any environ- ment, could have stood in the foremost rank, not as a scholar, although his knowledge far outstrips many possessors of showy academical diplomas ; not as an orator, though to listen to his preaching is the supreraest luxury to a trained literary taste, and not one of his clergy even distantly approaches him ; not even as an organizer, for the business faculty does not thrive perhaps in Devonshire, but in that mysterious result which men call character, which transcends all that men can do in what they are. " No figure at the recent Pan-Anglican Congress has ex- cited such attention as that of good Bishop Medley, who (had he wished it) might have preached in every Cathedral pulpit, and been spokesnian at each banquet. Around him, scholars of European reputation like Lightfoot and Stubbs, preachers like Magee and Boyd Carpenter, yielded willing deference. And we believe that none can have read without emotion the notice of that service in the little village Church of Lullington, where the Bishop and all his sons met together, for a last meeting perhaps. None of those among ourselves who still are privileged to know and learn of him, but pray that the calm sunset of his life may be prolonged for years yet for the good of the Church, and that his spirit may des- cend with his episcopal mantle upon those who shall come after him." Bcatli of Hon. Cliarles $iinoni)s. i The Hon. Charles Siinonds for many year.s closely identified with tUe interests and prosperity of 8t. Luke's, died at his residence, -Main street, Portland, directly opposite the Church, A}»ril 12, 1859. At a nieetintj of the Vestrv of the Church hehl April 25, 1859, the following resolution was unanim- ously adopted : " Whereas, it has pleased God to remove from amongst us our highly esteemed friend, the Hon. Charles Simonds, this Vestry hereby record their grateful acknowledgements of his many act** of liberality towards the erection and support of this Church, and would beg most respectfully to suggest to the sons of the deceased the propriety of erecting a suitable monument in this Church to his memory." His son, Henry G. Sinionds, at that time one of the Wardens, intimated his intention, in co-operation with his brother, to i)ay all debts then due by the corjjoration. The Hon. (Miarles Simonds was born at Portland l*oint, Auii-ust 22, 1788, three months after the arrival of the first fleet from \ew York witii Loyalists. His father, dames Simonds, died at the old homestead, February 20, 1881, a,im Sherbrook, Governor of Xova Scotia, sent from Hali- fax ten 24 jtounders for the battery on l*artriution to its ]>ages, Mr. Tilley — now Sir Leonard Tillev, our honoured Lieutenant-dovenior — wrote as follows: " I have jotted down hurriedly a short memo, of events connected with St. Luke's Church from 1841 to 1855. There were no doubt many incidents that occurred during that period, which, could I recall them, would be of interest to the parishioners at the present time, but my memory has not been found good enough to warrant me in re|)eating or stating them. 58 Sir Leonard TiUejfa Sketch of St. Luke's Church. " The Rev. William Harrison was Rector during the whole of this period, and discharged the duties of the parish without any assistance, with two exceptions. "On Sunday, April 5, 1846, at the evening service, Mr. Harrison, after giving out his text was obliged to intimate to his hearers that he would not be able to proceed. He pro- nounced the benediction and immediately swooned away in the pulpit. A very general feeling of deep sympathy was evinced in the congregation. He soon recovered from the swoon and was removed to his house, but continued in a very weak state of health. " At a meeting of the Vestry held April 14, 1846, Mr. Harrisoii having read certificates from Drs. Bayard and Botsford, explained that his health was so impaired that he felt it his duty either to obtain from the Vestry a leave of absence or to resign his cure. A leave of absence was granted for twelve months, and he was authorized to make provision for the services of the Church during his absence — for that purpose he secured the assistance of the Rev. Richard Simonds and the late Rev. Wm. Boyer, afterwards Rector of Moncton. " On his return from the United States, the following address from the Church Wardens and Vestry, and from eighty other pewholders, was presented to Mr. Harrison : '"Portland, May 21, 1847. '"Reverend Dear Sir — '"Upon your return after an absence of several months from the flock which under your pastoral care has been fed and nourished with the Bread of Life, we, your parishioners, and others deeply interested in your health and general welfare, and mindful of the blessings bestowed upon our Parish by Almighty God since the period of your first coming amongst us, and of your efforts of love and duty for the advancement of that cause to which you are dedicated, of which the rapid growth and healthy condition of our Church in this Parish bear ample evidence, hasten as well to proclaim our heartful gratitude to Him ' who ordereth all things aright,' for His SAMUEL LEONARD TILLEY, 1855. Sir Leonard Tiltey^a Sketch of St. Luke's Church. 59 mercies in restoring you with renewed health to your anxious friends, and for the benefit to be derived from your future exertions for their spiritual welfare — as also to express the sincere and cordial satisfaction with which we hail your return among us. " 'Almighty God hath been pleased to restore you to us in comparatively good health. We praise His Holy Name for the blessing ; and pray that it may please His Divine Majesty to permit you for years yet to come to labour in ' the cause which you have in hand.' May the lilossing of God attend you, our worthy Pastor, in your labours for our welfare, in health may it keep you, in sickness may it strengthen you, and when trouble and the hour of death overtake you, may it prove your comforter. Amen.' " To which Mr. Harrison made the following reply : '"My Dear Friends — "'Accept my thanks for your very kind address. It affords me great comfort to know that many months of absence have not in the smallest degree alienated your affec- tions from me. "'For nearly eleven years we have lived togt iher in harmony, and from you I have received very many acts of kindness. During my wanderings in search of health in a foreign land, and while surrounded by kind christian friends, you have ever been uppermost in my thoughts, and your spiritual as well as temporal welfare were always the sincere desire of my heart. " ' As to the success with which my poor labours have been crowned since I became your pastor, I can only say that all that has been done must be attributed to the gracious assistance of Him without whose aid our best concerted plans must ever prove futile. " ' As to my future course, that I must leave with Him ' in whose hands are the issues of life and death.' 60 Sir Leonard Tilley'a Sketch of St. Luk^a Church. '"Thanking you once more for your kind address, and praying the Great Head of the Church to shower down ou you the riches of His Grace, '"Believe me, '"Your faithful friend and pastor, •"Wm. Harrison.' I * "■ • ■ '' 1; " While in Massachusetts, Mr. Harrison, accompanied by his family, took up his residence in the town of Taunton, a few miles south from Boston. For several months it was his custom to go up to Boston once a week and assist the city clergy, and frequently the Bishop, the Right Rev. Manton Eastburn, in their Sunday services. This yielded consider- able pecuniary remuneration, and by returning to Taunton on Monday, with no parish cares on his heart and mind, Mr. Harrison secured, each week, much needed rest and recup- eration. " In the summer of 1848, Bishop Eastburn visited Port- land, and was the guest of Mr. Harrison. On the Sunday during his visit, he preached in the ' Stone Church,' St. John, in the morning, at St. Paul's in the afternoon, and in old St. Luke's in the evening. Mr. Harrison christened one of his sons Manton Eastburn in honor of the good Bishop. "Again, in 1854, after the disappearance of the cholera, he was granted a leave of absence for a short time to enable him to recuperate his health which had been broken down as the result of his devotion to the suffering in the Parish during the continuance of that fearful epidemic. " In addition to the two services conducted by him every Sunday in St. Luke's Church, he, for a considerable period, held a Wednesday evening service, as well as a Sunday afternoon service in St. Paul's (Valley) Church, a service at the Provincial Penitentiary, and a monthly service in the Parish of Simonds. The last named services were generally held on a week day, and were well attended, especially during the winter months. The congregations of St. Luke's steadily Sir Leonard Tllleya Sketch of Si. Luke's Church. 61 increased. January 17, 1854, the Vestry Clerk having informed the Corporation that the then Church accommoda- tion was not sufficient to meet the demands for pews and sittings, it was resolved that a sum not exceeding £250 be expended in the extension and enlargement of the Vestry room, by which some twenty additional single pews were secured. The room in the basement of the addition was used by the Sunday School * which was successfully carried on under the Rector's supervision — the teachers being prepared for their work by instructions given them weekly at the Rector's residence. ]x)oking back upon the amount of work he was then called upon to perform, the only wonder to me is that his health continued as unimpaired as it was and that he was not earlier conipelled to resign his charge or procure the assistance of a curate. " Mr. Harrison was greatly respected and beloved by his people, and his earnest and faithful preaching was signally blessed, adding largely to the list of communicants. That his ministrations were highly acceptable to his congregation was shown by the readiness with which calls for money for the erection, enlargement and maintenance of the Church were met. His own contributions were liberal, on one occa- sion amounting to £25. " The most liberal contributor to the funds of the Church during the period I am so hurriedly surveying, was the Hon. Charles Siraonds. In addition to a generous contribution towards the funds for the construction of St. Luke's Church, he donated the lot of land on which the Church edifice now stands, valued at £400, as also the lot on which Grace Church stood, the latter valued at £200. Mr. Simonds was also a kind and generous friend of the Rector. He died April 12, 1859, without leaving a will. His estate was equally dividele of St. John and Portland and indeed of the Lower Provinees, knew Mr. Harrison eithei- hy sight or reputation, and no nnin was more honored or revered. As a }>astor and visitor, espeeially to the siek and dying, he was eminently hai»}»y in devotional exercises. A rich fund of scri}>tural language which was always at his comnumd, gave to his services in this character a peculiar api>ropriateness and im- pression. Asa sacred orator (^mon Harrison jtossessed a com- bination of excellences. Ills tone and nuiuner (jomhined clerical dignity with reverential solemnity, lie avoireacher he declared boldly the (iros])el of the grace of God. His sermons were fragrant with the odor of his text, context and cognate [lassages. It was his practice often to imi>rove local (K'currences and interesting passing events either as topics or illustrations. Like his ]»redeccssor and successors lie adhered to tlie "old })atlis "' in the mode of conducting liturgic worship, in the subjects of sermons l)ased on Catholic doctrines " as the truth is in Jesus," in the celebration of the Holy Communion an«l in the parochial adminis- tration. (\inon Harris(Mi had an entire distrust of the value of his sermons for any other purjutse than his own delivery of tiiem froni the ituljtit, and shortly before his death left an injunction that they should be destroyed. The strong desire of many to possess in this Souvenir a sermonic memorial of one who for foi'ty years exer- cised an umisual ])ower in thepulpit,istinis disappointe«l. Whoever among the living has beard any of his dis- courses will respond to our expressioji of regret that at least one of the mamiscript sermons was not taken from the old hair truidc be(iueatheartv of relations and friends who presented them with a jmrse fidl of gold pieces, and with several other handsome and usefnl presents. Mr. Harrison was much affected hy the thonghtfnl and loving motives tliat prompted these gifts, and made a graceful and touching reply which brought tears to the eyes of his assembled friends and admirers. In less than two months after this happy anniver- sary. Canon Harrison was summoned to rest. He died at Beech Hill, Monday, May 5, 1879. Funeral services were, held in St. Luke's Sunday School Room, Wednesday afternoon. May 7, conducted by the Rector of St. Luke's and by the Rev. Canon I'artridge. At the grave in the Rural Cemetery, the Rev. William Armstrong pronounced the benediction. Mev. W iKiam Harvison Tideu. On Suiulay, June 80, ISOT, tlu" licv. AVilliani Har- rison Tillcy, a nanicsakc of Canon Harrison, cntored upon liis (hitios as Curato oi' St. Luke's. Suni. 1S77. lie heir«»n to complain of pain in th<' head and inaldlity to >leep. In Si'ptelnbel" he was foreed tu seek have of absi-nee — an al'si'Ucc that wa>.. unfortunat* ly, taken up with Church work, hoth in Montrt .d and <^U'be«-. where the sleeplo^ni'ss Iteeaine fixed. !n (|Uest of CO uplefe I'tst he tlu'n Journeyed to his old Parish, PortLnd. St. ,lohn. A pail of the time 1 1HL HtV. W HAiHIiON TILLEY. iA Rev. WUliam Haii'ison TiUey. 67 i durin«j^ liis stay here he spent at the residence of liis aunt, -Vfrs. Thos. B. Barker, Donifhis Hoad, wliere tlio ten(k'rest eare of devoted friends and rehitives did everytliinif to insure liini perfect ])ea('e and (juiet. He seemed, however, rapidly to irrow wor-^e, and risini^ from a sick l»ed he lans'uidlv iourneved hack, a dis- tanee of 1,100 mik's, tliat he miglit onee more he "at liome." If is end is thus deserihcd hy a (K'ar friend : " The first attack — inHfiinniation of the iiienibruno of tht brain — seemed to pass off, and hojws were entertained that he was in a fair way of recovery. But tubercular disease of the brain itself supervened, and he lingered but a few days after, in wanderings of mind, most of which were about his Church work. His lucid intervals were filled with the sweet peace of God. In a firm conviction that his end was nigh, in a conviction eciually firm of his Saviour's grace and love, in prayers for the success of the schemes in which his heart and hands had been engaged, and for his dear ones, his latest rational intervals were spent. There were flashes of con- sciousness to the last. He recognized those about him, whis- pering to his brother-in-law — in allusion to a trij) to Cuba projected when there had been a prosj)ect of a convalescence — ^another ship, another voyage.' And .so, surrounded by the ministrations of devoted love, resting on his Saviour's merit, he passed cahnly away on Sunday morning to the eternal Sabbath — the rest that remaineth — 'dving as though he slept.' " The Rev. William Harrison Tilley uas horn in St. John, April 20, 1844. His }>arents were Samuel Leonard and rJulia A. (Ilanford) Tilley. His father was at that time Vestry Clerk of St. Luke's ('liurch. His mother was daughter of the late James T. Hanford of St. John, lie was baptized in St. Luke's Church by the Hector, Rev. William Harrison, September 20, 1844. 68 Rev. WUliam Harrison Tilley. Hie c'ondiu't as a bov wan verv exomplarv. ^Vhile • alt, under their immediate eare and j^uidanee he never pive his parents an hour's anxiety, lie was elieert'ul, kind-hearted, and es}>eeial]y fond of the society of other boys. His parents were very watchful lest this soeiable- ness (a characteristic of him through life) should in any way prove contaminating to his moral nature. It was a princii»le with his parents, as with the mother of George Ilerljert, that " as our bodies take a nourishment suitable to the meat on which we feed, so our souls do as ifisensihlv take in vice bv the examiile or conversation with wicked company; that ignorance of vice is the best preservation of virtue, and that the very knowledge of wickedness is as tinder to inflame and kindle sin, and to keep it burning." In accord- ance with this principle great care was taken to prevent Harrison from associating with improper companions. He was kept a stranger to the indecorous language and sports so fre(iuent among city children. He grew up unacquainted with the vocalndary of vice, and he pre- served through life the same unsoi»histicate(l spirit. His words, his manner and his whole ap}tearance, proved him to be guileless and untainted, "the purity of his mind breaking out and dilating itself, even to his body, clothes and habitation." As a boy, Harrison Tilley was genMe and retiring, engaging with ardor in the active sports of childhood, but very seldom, if ever, in the strife by which they are apt to be attended ; pursuing his studies with attention and fidelity, and performing all his tasks in a manner creditable to himself, and satisfactory to his instructors ; never, in any instance tliat his friends can now recall, incurring punishment or grave censure for any serious misconduct or deficiency. It may be truly said of him I ^1.. Rev. William Harrison Tilley. i «)«) that tliL' samo traits of tiViitlouoHS, discretion, Imniility, and fonscicntioiisnc'ss that marked the man wi-re carlv iiianit't'stt'd hy tlu- cliihl — chihlhood traits which hitcr, with tlic ripeninn' influence of years, made his life so siny-uhirlv sweet and attractive. llarris(>n TiHev was a nnmlv hov, and that is one reason, I fanev, why he became a hovisli man. After studvinu" at the St. John Grammar School (Dr. Paterson, l*rinci)>;'.l), he entered the Fredericton Grammar School, Mr. (ileorije Uoherts, Principal (father of the Kev. (t. (i. Koherts, Rector of St. Ann's, Fredericton). At the ao;e of sixti-en he entered the Tniversitv of Xew Brunswick, Fredericton. It had been his intention to study for the Legal I'rofessiou, thou.ii:h his mother's prayers had destined him for the Min- istry, — indeed it was the expectation <>f )iio}i}i of his friends that his life was to he devoted to tlie Ghristian ^^inistrv, because thev somehow felt that his own feelina; would incline in that direction, and because he was reijarded as sini^nlarlv titted for the office by those wlio knew him best. From the time that he was old enouii'h to attend a place of wor- ship until he was twelve years old he attended reifu- larly, and with manifest })leasure, the ndnistrations of the Kev. Mr. Harrison in St. Luke's Church, and doubtless his earnest preachiuij; had a great influence on the vounii," lad's earlv reliijious life. Indeed the rector was accustomed fondly to anticii)ate the time when Harrison Tilley, — " niy boy,'' as he used to call him — would be a jtillar and ornament of the CMiristian Church. It was during his College life — and perhaps in answer to the persistent prayers of others — that his future began to shape itself towards the ^[inistry of tlie Gospel of Christ. GratUially his tastes and desires, ! 1 •,%. vs-. ai* O^ \t>^% IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) 1.0 I.I 1.25 ittjiy IIIIM '"* Itt III Z2 12.0 ia 1.8 U 111.6 V] <^ /^ o ej. e] ^1 V o / °'>f ■> / ^, Photographic Sciences Corporation 33 WE'tT MAIN STREET WEB<.>TeR, N.Y. 14580 (71«; '73- 1 503 4j^ i/i k 70 Rev. WiUiam JIaiTison Tilley, wliich had been irreatlv attaclied towards the studv of law, took a new direction. Ilis father wrote me under date of Mareli 21, 1889: " When I ascertained that he had decided upon this course, after the most careful and prayerful consideration, and that he was impelled to it from love to his Saviour, I gave my cheerful assent." Rev. Harrison Tilley's widow, now residing in Memorial Lodge, London, Ont., writes me as follows; " In regard to his conversion I may tell you that he never could point to a time or period or day when he was conscious of turning directly from the world to his Saviour ; he seemed to realize rather a gradually increasing desire for a better and higher life, and this from his boyhood. I knew him quite intimately from the time we were fifteen yeai-s of age. He was then marked by a refined mind, a very winning manner, and extreme gentleness among the younger children of the family ; his mother having been called to her heavenly home, he felt that these children were an especial charge from her to him — his father being greatly absorbed in pul)lic business. I have seen him at the age of sixteen with a little sister on either knee, inquiring into some dispute, the tearful, angry little faces gradually calming down under his influence ; and his decision in the matter under dispute, settling everything, and bringing back harmony and peace. While possessing this gentleness and self-control he had a great deal of firm- ness, a keen sense of the ridiculous, genuine wit, and great power of repartee. These latter characteristics he possessed to the last." While at C'ollege he bore a high rank as a student, and won tlie reputation of sound scholarship, especially in mathematical studies, and in those which .apper- tained to the ]>hilosophy of man's intellectual and moral nature. .r Rev. William Harrison Tille^. 71 ^r Ilis college life wan (juiet ami uneventful, marked 1)V a studious devotion to his leiritiniate tasks and free from participation in those vouthful pranks and wild excesses which are at once the l>oast and the disij^race of so many underii!:raduates. He had the rare hajipi- ness of enjoying ecpial favor with the (College Govern- ment and with his class-mates — with the former on account of the soliditv of his character and the uniform correctness of his deportment, with the latter for his high sense of honour, his frankness, and cordial help- fulness. In 1864, having heen honour man in mathematics and natural science, he took his degree, and soon after entered as a student in Divinitv in the Universitv of King's (\)llege, Windsor, X. S. After two years of application here, he studied privately until of age for the ministrv. Ilaviny; heen ordained Deacon hv the Bishop of Fredericton, he entered, June 80, 1867, at the age of twenty -three, u[>on the curacy of St. Luke's Olmrch, Portland. In 1868 he took Priests Orders. Previous to his ordination as Deacon he visited Europe and spent some time on the Continent. He derived much henetit trom an educational point of view from this foreign tour, and ac(juired information that he found of great service to him in the discharge of his ministerial duties. On August -2, 1871, in Trinity Church, (the Rev. Canon Harrison and the Rev. Chas. R. Matthew, hrother of the hride, otHciating) he was married to Miss Klizaheth M. Matthew of St. dohn, a ladv whose congenial tastes and principles, deep affection, and rare domestic virtues, insured him the comfort and joy of a hajipy christian liome. Mr. Tilley's piety assumed all the heautiful forms of development wiiich helong to 72 ReiK William Harrinon Tilky, IT :i floniestic and social life. Tn his own family it is feeble praise to say of him in hackneyed phrase that he was ^' a kind husband and indulgent father'' — he bore liimself towards all its members as he could have done only by regarding himself and them as fellow members of the s[>iritual family fast gathering above. One secret of his unicpie success consisted in the tenderness and strength of affection he felt for and manifested towards all that ajiproached him — an atfec- ti(>n that disarmed fear and broke down all barriers, so that even a child or stranger felt in an instant that he was in the presence of one whose heart, big with love, had within it a i)lace for him — an affection wliich drew the children of the Sunday School to him as to a brother, an affection which led him to symi>a- thize so keenlv with vounu" men in their trials and tem[itations, and that bounarishi<)ners never admired, so much as thev loved him, and the living amoni>' them to-dav cling to his memory with a tenacity that will never let it go. Fn St. J^uke's Parish, Portland, as no doubt in Loudon, Ontario, and in Toronto, the name of Harrison Tillev is a household word. And no won- der. He freelv gave to all his hand and his heart. He acted on the jtrinciple '' the nuin that wants me is the nmn I want,'' be he poor, unlearned, unpopular, unbelieving even. And for these latter, the ske[>tical of religion, or the feeble in Christian faith, he showed a peculiar sym- patliy. " He ]>lied them with the arts of a sacred court- ship," and in nuuiy pleasing instances which have been 1 Rev. WilUavi Hart'imn Tilley. 73 t narrate happy faculty of iiitersjtcrsiiig in ordinarv conversation reliuious thouu:hts and references, and like Herbert's " Country Parson," with his i»reat object "he niinii'led other discourses for conversation's sake, and to make his hiu'lier pur[>oscs slij) the more easilv." The poet ^[ontu:omerv says: "Prayer is the Christian's vital breath, The Christian's native air." It mav truthfully he said of Mr. Tillev, reliii'ion was his "vital breath"; he lived in it as in his ''mitive air." To him Jesus Christ was no mere historic jiersonaiiv, removed by the ^'ulf of nineteen centuries. He was a near and personal friend, walkinu; by his side as of old He did by the side of His disciples, and to whom and of whom it was most easy and natural to speak. He would take ujion his lips the name "Jesus Christ " in wav of illustration as unblushiuiflv as the vouth at our street corners sav it m a wav of bravado and blasithemv. But it must not be inferred that Mr. Tilley was a polemn-faced, lugubrious Christian. Tiie 8on of Afan who so loved little children, who " a(h»rned and beauti- iied with His ]>resence" the nnirriaifc scene in Cana of Galilee, certainlv never frowned awav a healthv ami 74 Eev. William Harrison Tilley. joyful laui^litcr on the part citlier of His iiniuodiuto or clistantlyiroiiioto disciples. riuloed we are told, and yet " again " enJoinepy Chris- tian. He |»ossessed a rich vein of humorous fancy, which was not the least attraction of his ({ualities. His frequent huoyant sallies of harndess wit in no sense (k'tracted from his Christian character. Like Herhert's Country Parson, he knew that " nature will not hear everlasting droopings, and that jtleasantness of dis- i»osition is a great kev to do ifood, not onlv hecause all men slum the com}>any of }teri>etual severity, hut also for that when they are in company, instructions seascmed with pleasantness, hoth enter sooner and root (lee[)er. Wherefore he condescended to human frailties, hoth in himself and others, and intermingled some mirth in his discourses occasionally to the pulse of the hearer." To meet Mr. Tillcv was like meeting a fresh hreeze on a sultrv dav,()r like feelinur the welcome hearth-glow on a cold (lav. He mini»:led in social circles with a kind of " chastened hilarity." Xot oidy could he sym]tathize with sorrow and suffering, he could enter with a hearty zest into all innocent i>leasures of life. He was not only a man amonir men, hut a hov amoni>' hovs. His singular adajttahility made him recogni/e the truth of the wise man's assertion, "-there is a time to weep and a time to laugh." At Sunday School festivals, picnics, or excursions, all his hoyish exhilaration would come hack tt) him, and hehecame all thiiigs to all hovs. One of our Sunday Scho(d teachers, Mr. AVillam IL Smith, declares that " when Parson Tillev would throw off coat Rev. William Harrison Tilley. 75 and vest and on<»:a_i;o in a foot-race or pinie of hall the school hovs felt that in hini thev had, for the time heinu^ at least, a genuine school-mate — a ri'a/ f/ood fcl/oir."' hi this connection it may he interestinu; to state that ,\[r. Tillev was always fondlv attached to the t'hildren of the Sunday School, which he always ]»er- sonally su[>erintended, and in which even the smallest and most timid flocked ahout him as ahont a father. It is said that he knew every one of the three hun- dred or more scholars by name. Thus devoted to the interests of the young, he reaped tlie return of their enthusiastic affection. Of the great and good Shepherd it is said, " The sheep hear His voice, and lie calleth His own shee[) hv name." That same Slieplierd left, as liis final charge, that command to llis under pastors, " Shepherd my shee[», feed my lambs." In tlie spirit of tlie Master, Mr. Tillev called his flock hv name — he truly shepherded the sheep and fed the lambs. Especi- ally was he zealous in procuring the attendance of teachers * for the children and of children for the teachers. He superintended the School with an in- terest and enthusiasm which never failed in himself, and which he endeavoured to inspire in others. As a pastor Mr. Tillev was social and cheerful, diligent and faithful. It was his desire and andutitm to visit all the families of his Parish as often as possible, consistent with his assiduous and devoted attention to the afflicted, the sick and dying. While esteeming it ti high privilege to sit by the beds of languishing and * Until his marriage Mr. Tilley boarded at the house of Mrs. Abrani CTregg, Douglas Koad. Teachers' meetings were held in his study once a week — meetings which were largely and enthusiastically attended, and whose spiritual influence has been felt in the Parish even to this day. 76 Rev. William Harrihon Tilley. hi to aid the last exercises of tlie dyinu^, fervently com- nieiidiiiii' them to God's nierev, still he strove not to foru;et the well and livinu". In Mr. Tilley's pocket i>arish reifister (a model of neatness and precision), liandere«le- cessor, Rev. F. H. Almon, I find the following charac- teristic (luotations : " Will you be ready with all faithful diligence .... to use both private monitions and exhortations, as well to the sick as to the whole, within your cures, as need shall require and occasion shall be given ? " "I will, the Lord being my helper." — Ordination Service. " If the Parson were ashamed of particularizing in these things, he were not tit to be a Parson ; but he holds the rule that nothing is little in God's service ; if it once have the honour of that Name, it grows great instantly. Wherefore neither disdaineth he to enter into the poorest cottage, though he even creep into it, and though it smell never so loathe- somely. For both God is there also, and those for whom God died." — George Herbert, " The Parson In Circuit." In connection with Mr. Tilley's life as a i)astor, a visitor to the sick and attiicted, it mav be both inter- estiniJ: and stimnlative to those who read this brief memorial sketch of his life and labours, to state that he was noblv an ■J liev. WiUiani Hurrinmi Tillet/. •9 k* tian stewards, a more careful examination into the nature of our individual trusts. In our own little sphere let us do what we can to promote clearer views of Christian duty, and to raise the standard of Christian service. P^specially to the commu- nicant raemhers of our church should we suggest the views here set forth. ' We are not our own ; we are hought with a price.' We do not work or give to secure (jod's pardon, but, as grateful for Christ's redem})tion, we will ever yield to God as an acknowledgement a portion of that which He has given to us. We force no tax or rate on others, but we believe that we are compelled honestly to lay the assessment on our* selves. "'We give Thee but Thine own, Whate'er the gift may be ; All that we have is Thine alone, A trust, O Lord, from Thee.' " As a projichcr Mr. Tillov was earnest, rketh in us, unto Him be glorv in the Cliurch l)v Christ Jesus throuijhout all ages, worhl witliout end. Amen." At the beginning of tlie sermon he spoke as follows : "It seems that we turn instinctively to the writings of St. Paul whenever circumstances lead us to think specially of the relation l)etween pastor and people. He is our pattern minister of the gospel, the most blessed instrument in the hands of God for the conversion of sinners and the edification of saints. He is always earnest, always faithful, always lev- ing ; and his intercourse with the Churches that he founded or strengthened is always profitable for our study. " When in the goodness of God I was permitted first to speak in Christ's name from this pulpit, I asked you to con- sider a verse in the Epistle to tl t Romans where the common E 82 Rev. William Harrison Tilley. interests? of pastor and j^ople were declared ; and now that our connection is drawing to a close, now that I am here to speak for the last time — it may be forever, but at least the last time for a season — I cannot find any words that will bring before you more accurately what I would wish to con- vey than these inspired verses quoted for our text." After (k'velopiiig the tlumii-ht that our coinprchcu- sioii of tht' breadth, length, depth, and heiuht of Clirist's love to us depends on our l»ein^* rooted and grounded in love to him and to each other, \\v eon- eluded as follows : " I look back to-night upon many services enjoyed in this house of God. I recall scenes of sorrow an;n of " ]>reachin«!; U[) his own sentiments, rather than iireachinir down the sentiments of other men." He was earnest for the faith once A, as written hv an eve-witness, .lames Ilannav, Ksci. : " The origin of the fire is not clearly known. It was first discovered in the barn in the rear of Keltic's brewery, off Main street. In an incredibly short space of time the flames had enveloped the barn, and, fanned by a strong north-west wind, which blew almost with the force of a gale, they spread to an adjoining shed, and thence to the brewery in front. So rapid was the work of destruction that the brewery was in a sheet of flame in a few moments. From the brewery the fire extended to Mr, Keltie's house on Main street. A burning shingle flew up from the brewery, crossed the small lane adjoining, and lodged in the belfry of St. Luke's Church. Everything about the spire was as dry as tinder, and it was but the work of a moment for it to become ignited. The flames ran up the spire and, circling in a long forked tongue, which spoke of ruin to everything near it, impended upon the body of the Church, and soon enveloped the whole of the large edifice in their folds. The scene as the flames laid hold of the steeple and shot upwards, high toward the sky, was terribly grand — they seemed to gloat in the mastery they were so rapidly gaining. The burning of so large and lofty a building, with so strong a wind blowing, threatened the surrounding buildings with instant destruction. Mr. Alex- ander Rankine's house adjoining the Church was soon on fire and, although built of solid brick, burning fiercely within, every door and window adding to the draught, and making it glow like an enormous stove. Burning shingles and frag- ments of wood, driven by the strong breeze, flew thickly across Main street and down into the valley, and the large Simouds house, occupied by Count DeBury, caught fire. The flames leaped from house to house down the line of Harrison street v/iih a rapidity which was perfectly awful — in a few rnson a few !!!!|IM|il!!|| ! l!!!|!!! ! !l! l l!j | l | ! ! !l ll| |!|il l| ! ^^ ^ 11' ""'f lilriji ' '"'^'pi'iii'i ST. LUKE'S CHURCH, 1838-1875. Destruction of St. Luke's Church. 91 minutes they had reached the shipyards on the Strait Shore road. The wind was fitful, squally and strong, blow- ing in eddies which sent sparks flying towards the most unex- pected places. Many burning shingles and i afters fell far to the eastward of the Police Station, and but for the most con- stant watchfulness on the part of the people, these masses must have developed into fresh tires. " No one who was not an utter stoic could view without emotion the scene of devastation rhich presented itself to the eye. At half past one o'clock buildings covering many acres of laud were in flames. To one looking from the heights east of the Douglas Road, it might have seemed that he was gazing on some fragment of a burning world. The whole vallev was a sea of fire and smoke — a valley of death where nothiiig could live but the all destroying flames. "Chesley's iron knee foundry; the buildings of Hilyard Bros., including their workshops, pattern lofts, offices, marine railway and shipyard ; Brown's shipyard, with a ship nearly finished on the stocks ; acres of timber belonging to Hilyard Bros, and others ; a great quantity of pitch pine owned by Robert A. Gregory, with many buildings on the Strait Shore were all one mass of fire. As a picture it was grand, but .t was a sad sight to anyone who considered the vast loss of property it involved. "The fire area covered more than 20 acres of ground. Eighty dwelling houses and workshops were destroyed ; 163 families turned out of doors, and property lost to the value of over a quarter million dollars. " During the progress of the conflagration Fort Howe and most of the heights in the vicinity were covered with thou- sands of spectators, lending quite a picturesque aspect to the scene. But besides these, on the heights above the Strait Shore, and in the fields to the north of Main street, were little groups of watchers of another sort. These were the houseless and homeless, who now did not know where to lay their heads. It was a pitiful sight and only redeemed from the tragic by the composure and fortitude of the sufferers. 92 The Reo. Foster H. Almon. % i 3 "St. Luke's Church was insured for $8,000 — loss about S17,000. It halain in Halifax. Subseipiently, on account of his health, which at that time required a milder dinuite, he returned to Jamaica, where he remained iuv about ten years. He then removed to the Banish Island of St. Croix, where he Avas Hector of St. John's Church for about four vears. In this I'arish there were about 5,000 church jteople and niore than 1,000 communi- cants. Returning to Xova Scotia, he accepted the curacy of St. George's Church, Halifax. While holding this position lie visited England, and during a few months of his stav in London acted as curate of St. Paul's Church, Kensington Cross. At the deatii of the Rector of St. George's, the Rev. Dr. I'niacke, he resigned the curacy, and after a short visit to the United States, was elected Rector of Trinity Ciiurch (St. Stephen) in the Diocese of Fredericton. Upon the resignation of the Rev. Canon Harrison, Rector of St. Luke's (^hurch, Portland, Mr. Almon was elected to the variant position. After a rectoi-ship of three years in St. Luke's, he became incumbent of St. Mary's (free) Church, St. John, X. B. He remained two years at St. Mary's, and then accepted the rectorship of St. Mary's Church, Richibucto, X. B., where he remained four years and nine months. After resigning this parish, he took charge, for one year, of the E|»iscopal Church in Mechanicsburg, Diocese of Central Penn- sylvania, U. S. A. On leaving this [)arisli he returned to the Diocese of Xova Scotia, and look charge of Trinity Church, Halifax, a mission church of St. Paul's 94 The Rev. Fosiei' H. Almon. I — (Trinity Clmrcli lias since become an indeitendent parish, vvitli the Kev. Mr. Ahiion as Kector). In a letter to the P]rouu)te the cause of ehristiaii edui-atiou and the relief of the needy on judicious principles of lielp and svstennitie elmritv, ever seeking to eueouraiiv self- reliance. A kind and benevolent visitor to the houses of the poor, and in connection with every counsel, which a desire for their moral and s[>iritual welfare might promi)t, he has nnide it a principle through his ministerial life, in his visits, to relieve, if possible, their temporal wants. The poorer portions of his various & [tcndont 1 various litions of African Elepublic, \ Diocese a Scotia, ministry. 5torate, I e as mine •ied char- •each the ndeavour tness and iour, and iim. In jed much to regret ;her, that mportant and true ian influ- rv." always ion and )f help u;o self- houses conn sol, welfare lUgli his le, their various M.i&sawiKjsit^ THE REV. FOSTER H. ALMON. \ t. _ The Rev. Lot'enzo Gorham Stevens. dlj flocks liave always cxpericMU't'd Ins jtarticular coiucni, and have [trovod liim to be a •♦'i.ul and affectionate pastor in tlie liovels of poverty, tlie cluunbers of sici<- ness, and tlie abodes of bereavement. For nianv vears he has also nr":ed on his different conifrei::ations the dnty of aidinu; and supportint;; the i^reat temperance reform movement as a i»art of the work of the Chris- tian (^hnrch. Auoint- ment to the incumbency of St. Afary's (Free) Church, St, John. Wednesday evening, August '28, 1878, the Rev. L. G. Stevens was elected Rector of the Parish. On Sunday, Xovember 10, 1878, he entered upon his new duties. From August till Xovend)er Sunday services were conducted in St. Luke's bv the Reverend Messrs. George ^f. Armstrong, William Armstrong, Fenlow Alexander, Clement K. Richardson, William (). Ray- mond, James V. Sheraton, George Schofield, and by the following licensed Lav Readers : Messrs. CI. Herbert Lee, William M. Jarvis, a?id T. W. Daniel. The following biographical sketch of the ]>resent Rector of St. Luke's is copied from the St. John Frof/irss, of August 18, 1888 : " The Rev. Lorenzo Gorhara Stevens is of English-Swedish ancestry — his paternal grandparents, Abel Stevens and Hadassa Mills, having come from England to Massachusetts in the latter part of the last century. His maternal grand- father was Wilhelm Edlund, shipowner and merchant of Stockholm, Sweden. The brother of the latter was private secretary to Gustavus IH. His grandfather left no male issue, and the surname, so far as can be learned, is now extinct in America. 96 The Rev. Lorenzo Gorham Stevens. I\ " The subject of this sketch was born December 26, 1846, at the celebrated summer resort, Bedford Springs, a few miles from Boston, Mass. At twelve years of age, having ' skipped ' one class in the Francis Street Grammar school, Boston, he entered the Latin school, Principal Buck, where he remained five years, taking honours in Greek and Latin. At the age of seventeen, he entered, free of conditions, Harvard Uni- versity, Cambridge, graduating at the age of twenty-one. His favourite stud'cs in college were the languages, ancient and modern history, and mental and moral philosophy. He also made a special study of physiology, and anatomy as taught by Prof. Wyman, intending at that time to adopt medicine as a life profession. A large part of the year fol- lowing his graduation he spent in New York city, pursuing his favourite studies — anatomy and medicine, visiting the hospitals, and enjoying the instructions of such men as Dr. John Miller and Dr. Edward H. Dixon — the latter one of the most original-minded and inventive f .geons of the age. " Medicine, however, was not to be the life-calling of Mr. Stevens. Possessed of keen perceptive powers (a prerequisite to a good physician), rendering a rapid and skilful diagnosis a matter of comparative ease, of a constitutionally sympathetic temperament, itself a healing medicine in a sick room, with a reasonable i)rospect of a fair income (Dr. Dixon's averaging $25,000 a year), it would have been a difficult matter, had not the heart's promptings overborne the head's reasonings, to exchange the prospective life of a physician for that of a clergyman. " We speak of the medical profession as a vocation, a calling — and so it should be; a man should be endowed with aptitudes and predispositions so special and marked that his whole nature unites in calling him to that distinctive v;ork. But there is a higher call than that of local and temporary and prudential considerations — than that even of one's own capabilities and peculiar aptitudes. It is the call of the r 26, 1846, I few miles f 'skipped' Boston, he i remained At the age vard Uiii- wenty-one. es, ancient )phy. He latomy as : to adopt ! year fol- , pursuing siting the len as Dr. latter one >ns of the ng of Mr. erequisite diagnosis npathetie m, with a iveraging itter, had asonings, that of a cation, a kved with that his ve 7ork. mporary He's own of the ■ ■ THE REV. L. G. STEVENS. The Rev. Lorenzo Gorham Stevens. 97 Master : ' Follow me ; go into all the world ; disciple all nations.' There is one profession which it is generally and justly thought to be presumptuous to enter without being distinctly and emphatically called — and called of God. " With this calling sounding in his heart Mr. Stevens announced his decision to his old friend and teacher, Dr. Dixon, who had once offered to place at his pupil's disposal when the end should come, suitable materials for a biography. Mr. Stevens returned to Cambridge, and in September, 1870, entered the Episcopal Theological Seminary, where he remained one year. He then obtained a leave of absence and spent the years 1871 and 1872 in foreign travel, at the same time prosecuting his theological studies. Travelling slowly ^ through Scotland, England, France and Belgium he reached Germany, where he spent eight months in Dresden and Berlin. While in the latter city he attended the University lectures on Systematic Divinity, by the world-renowned exegete, the late Dr. Dorner. Mr. Stevens leisurely continued his travels, spending one-half the day in close study, the other half in enjoyable and instructive sight-seeing. While in St. Peters- burg he made a careful observation of Russian life, as also of the religion of the Eastern or Greek church, as seen in the daily life of the people, and as displayed in the gorgeous and sensuous ceremonial of both parish and cathedral churches. Journeying through Finland, he reached Upsala, Sweden, and visited the ancient university of his ancestors, thence to Stockholm, the birthplace of his grandfather. After a lengthy and profitable tour he returned again to Cambridge, and graduated with the degree of B. D. in the seminary class of 1874. The seminary studies in which he took high rank were ecclesiastical history, systematic divinity, and compara- tive religion. " His diaconate he spent in Massachusetts, doing mission work and preaching in several places. In September, 1875, he received a unanimous call to the rectorship of Trinity Church, St. Stephen, N. B., made vacant by the resignation 98 Biographical Sketch, of Rev. F. H. Almon, and in January of the following year was admitted to the order of the priestliood in the Cathedral, Fredericton, by Bishop Medley, now Metropolitan. Ministering on Canadian soil, he deemed it fitting to become a naturalized British subject and took out legal papers to that effect. He served as rector of Trinity Church three years — years of marked prosperity in that Church's history, both as to large congregations, generous contributions. Church altera- tions and improvements, and spiritual life as shown in the number confirmed. The St. Croix Courier voiced the senti- ment of the town's people in the following notice of his departure : " * Rev. Lorenzo G. Stevens preached his farewell discourse to his people in Trinity Church, last Sunday evening. He took for his text John iii. 30 : ' He must increase but I must decrease.' At the conclusion of the sermon, which was one of great ability and power, the reverend gentleman reviewed his pastorate of the Church, congratulating the congregation on the prosperity and peace which had prevailed among them, thankfully recognizing the blessing of God upon his labours, and solemnly admonishing his hearers in reference to their spiritual and eternal interests. The Church was crowded upon the occasion, many persons of other denomina- tions being present. Mr. Stevens is universally esteemed for his many estimable qualities as a gentleman and a clergyman, and his departure from St. Stephen is very generally regretted. He enters at once upon his duties as rector of the Parish of Portland, St. John.' " Mr. Stevens, who is an enthusiastic lover of music, the editor and compiler of the Children's Hymnary, and a fre- quent composer of hymn tunes, chants and carols, received the following testimonial from Trinity Church choir: " ' As you are about to take your departure from us as our pastor and director, we keenly feel the loss to which we have to submit, and on behalf of the members of the choir, would if: The Rev. Lorenzo Gorham Stevens. 99 ask you to accept this photo, group as a small token of our respect and esteem. " ' Trusting you may long live to gaze on these faces as those of your genuine friends, we wish you prosperity and happiness in your future charge.' "At a conversazione, held in St. Luke's Church Sunday School room, November 13, 1878, the following address of welcome was presented : " 'Reverend Dear Sir — " ' On behalf of the Vestry and congregation of St. Luke's Church, we cordially welcome you among us as our pastor, and sincerely trust that, with the blessing of God and the cheerful and earnest co-operation of the members of this Church, you may be the means of bringing many into the number of Christ's flock ; and may God grant that the ties of friendship now formed between us be, by His grace, strength- ened more and more, as day by day we work together in unity and love in the service of our divine Master, either in the Church, the Sunday School, or in our daily intercourse with the world. May God give you wisdom and strength to fulfil your duties as our pastor, and long spare you to work among us, to His honour and glory. " ' On behalf of the congregation, "• Francis L. Ruddock, ) ^, i ur j > «.T?^„^„a, A n„^^^„y/| Church Warde)is. Robert A. Gregory, " In entering upon the many and various duties of a large and scattered semi-rural parish like that of St. Luke's, Mr. Stevens showed the same energy and persistence that charac- terized his pastorate in St. Stephen. On May 28, 1875, St Luke's Church edifice was totally destroyed by fire. For two yeai-s and more the congregation had been worshipping in the basement of the Church — the Sunday School room. One of the most pressing works to engage the attention of the new rector was the completion of the church building, as yet con- taining only a skeleton gallery and a large stock of lumber ■ H I JH II H li )H \l 100 Biographical Sketch, and boards. In the removal of the side galleries and in the selection of plans (fourteenth century English Gothic), in the substitution of richly panelled woods instead of plaster for the ceiling, the rector's careful study of church architecture served him well, and aided by the enthusiastic co-operation of a generous people, the interior of St. Luke's was soon finished and presented such an appearance of massiveness, grandeur and symmetrical beauty, that the humble parish Church possesses architectural features lacking in many pretentious Cathedrals. "To speak of parish work, Mr. Stevens acts as director and leader of the choir, superintendent of the large and flour- ishing Sunday School ( numbering over IW) pupils, with thirty- six teachers and oflicers), and patron of the St. Luke's Ciuirch Institute (the Y. M. A. and Y. L. A. societies amalgamated). In extra ])arochial work he is likewise active. As a member of the Church of England Sunday School Teachei-s' Associa- tion for the Deanery of St. John, he has delivered several essays before that body, three of which have, by special request, been published by the local press, and wholly or largely copied into the church papers; viz., 'Causes of Unbe- lief,' 'Children's Services,' and 'Sunday School Missionary Work.' He has also delivered several lectures for the benefit of churches of his own communion as well as for other religious bodies, ' Pre-Christian Religions and Their Relations to Christianity — A Study in Comparative Religion ' ; ' The Parson — His Trials and Triumphs,' and ' An Evening with Longfellow,' the latter of which was given in the regular course at the Mechanics' Institute, St. ,io\v.>. "In the year 1882, Mr. Stevens received three repeated and pressing invitations to take tii<; professorial chair of Ecclesiastical History and Church Polity in WycliflTe College, Toronto. Visiting Cambridge to seek the advice of Rev. Dr. Steenstra, Professor of Hebrew Literature, and of the Rev. Dr. Allen, Professor of Ecclesiastical History and author of the great work. The Continuity of Christian Thought, Mr. 1 ., The Bev. Lorenzo Gorham Steveiis. 101 Stevens was highly coinpHiuented on his teaching {wwers, and urged to accept the proffered professorship. After slowly deliberating, however, on the relative importance of teaching teachers' and preaching to })rospective preachei"s, and the, perhaps, humbler duty of pastorally ministering to the needs of a parish, he finally decided to remain ' pai*son,' with the multitudinous opportunities for disseminating truth, rather than become ' professor ' in a higher, though more restricted, field of work. " But the extra parochial honour which he most prizes was extended to him by his alma mater, in 1 883. There is annually chosen from among the alumni a lecturer to address the students regarding such topics as his experience may lead him to impress upon candidates for the ministry. Mr. Stevens was the one chosen from his class by the trustees for this valued distinction. A church pajier thus speaks of the selection : " ' The Rev. L, G. Stevens, B. D., the rector of St. Luke's, Portland, was elected to deliver the annual coui"se of lectures on ' Preaching,' before the students of the Cambridge Protest- ant Episcopal Divinity School. This is a high and well- deserved tribute to the power and worth of the baloved rector of St. Luke's. He is doing a splendid work in Portland, in which may he find more and more the presence and blessing of the Master, and glad returns of precious souls brought to the knowledge and love of the Saviour.' " He has also taken a lively interest in temperance work, and has delivered in many places a carefully prepared and exhaustive lecture, 'Two Rivals: or, The Home vers^is the Saloon.' As a member of the F. and A. M. he has oft;en acted as chaplain of various lodges, and has, on several occa- sions, given select readings at Masonic entertainments. As chaplain of the Royal Arcanum he is interested in bringing the importance of * cheap but safe life-insurance ' to the atten- tion of frugal working men and men with small salaries. He recently gave the annual address to the St. John and 102 Biographkal Sketch, Portland Foresters on the subject of ' Life Insurance from a Christian as veil as Pecuniary Standpoint,' This address — itself a legitimate and powerful advertisement — v/as published in full in the St. John Sim and in the Independent Forester. Mr. Stevens has recently been elected one of the local Board of Governors of the Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association of New York City — the most successful mutual association of the kind in the world. " ' With regard to the method of preaching,' he says, * I make all my reading, all my conversation with men upon the street, or with my people in their homes, all that I see and all that I hear, contribute to the preparation of a sermon. I believe that the minister of the gospel should wear his heart upon his sleeve where any man can touch it — that he should be intensely human in his sympathies ; and for this end much depends on the books he makes his daily companions. The four books I always have on my study table are the Bible, the Book of Common Prayer, Shakespeare, and Thomas A'Kempis. I regard the three latter as first-class commentaries upon the Book of books. The books I have under the table and around it — well, among them are the best modern novels. I think they are very supplemental as illustrating and analyzing experiences in modern complex civilization, which are not taken note of in so-called religious commentaries. Nor must I forget to acknowledge my indebtedness to the daily news- paper, from which I draw many a Sunday illustration, and to the perusal of which I give an hour every morning. The longer I preach the more I am convinced the ideal sermon, the successful sermon, is one which holds together, as with a firm but hidden hand, the best elements of all classes of ser- mons, doctrinal, topical, expository, practical and hortatory — though of course there are times and circumstances when one feature must be made emphatically prominent to the tempo- rary neglect of the others.' " In churchmanship the rector of St. Luke's is an Eclectic. He identifies himself with no one party, but while not hesitat- The Rev. Lorenzo Gorham Stevens. 103 ing to fellowship with all sorts and conditions of men, he is unswervingly loyal to the Church of England. He firmly holds to the belief that the Church of England, as she ex- presses the Catholic faith in her ordinal, sacraments and liturgy, is the best religious organization, the roomiest church on the face of the earth. ' With regard,' he says, ' to the three schools of thought in our branch of the Church universal — High, Low and Broad — I think that in each are certain v.eaknesses and errors, that all are open to friendly and remedial criticism — and so I identify myself wholly with no one of them. I appreciate the emphasis which the High Church section places on the thought of historic continuity, on the need of a ritual dignified, ornate and worshipful, which would have all things done decently and in order. I admire the earnestness with which the Low Church school insist upon the need of the pereonal coming of the soul to the personal Christ. And I unhesitatingly say that I am in complete sympathy with the Broad Church section, in so far as its motif is concerned — in so far as it teaches that the men who will serve the Church best to-day are those who can readjust methods and expressions without modifying the truth taught in Scripture, in so far as it emphasizes the need of inter- preting doctrines by Christ, and not Christ by doctrines, the need of making more room for God and man in the soul than for mere theories concerning them. This eclecticism I regard as a far different thing from that politic choice which make8 the colourless churchman who carefully avoids committing himsglf — a kind of man for whom I have little respect.' *' August HO, 1881, Mr. Stevens was married to Susan Lynds, only surviving daughter of the late Dr. John Waddell, for twenty-seven years Superintendent of the Provincial Lunatic Asylum, thj n whom probably no man in New Brunswick was better or more generally known, or whose name and works will be held in more grateful remembrance." Four children have been born to them : TFenry Waddell, March 24, 1883; Edlund Archibald, Aujrust 104 New St. Lulie's Church, 28, 1885; Gorhani Vinton, Jane 11, 1887; Sara Blan- chard, August 80, 1888. At the first Vestry ^leetiuii;, held M(^nday evening, N^oveniher 11, 1878, under the cliairniansliip of the present Keetor, two important changes were made, atiter a very full and friendly discussion ; viz., (1st) Bk-herstdh'' s Uyynnol was adoj>ted in jilace (if the small book "'Hum IIS for Pahlic Worship In flic Diocese of Fird- ericton " ; (2nd) the hour of evening service was change (( New St. Luke's Church. 107 The arclies sprini^ from cluster eoluimis of (inartereitais. Tlie spaiKh'ils of the enrved trusses to the roof over tlie elianeel aisled are tilled with trefoil and quatrefoil traeerv in ash, as are also those of the arcade letween the nave and the aisles. The pulpit occupies its appropriate position on the Gospel side of the chancel arch. The chancel (octagonal) is raised tliree steps ahove the nave, and the openings from the vestry and organ chamhers into the chancel are iitted with tracery in ash. The roof of the chancel is sheathed to a curve with moulded rihs, and the walls are i)anelled with hasswood, ash and hlack walnut. The lighting arrangements are very eifective ; corona? lighting four ways, being arranged around the girt moulding half way n\) the clustered columns supporting the arcade. Ik'sides these there is a (memorial) opal glass reflector, of forty-four burners, lighting the centre of the church, and hanging from the curved brace of the roof. The ediflce is heated by steam at an original cost of $1,100. Much credit is due to the energy of Mr. Archibald Tapley, who was chiefly instrumental in securing, from a large and representative number of generous subscribers, the amount to be expended. The building committee was composed of the Rector (chairman), Messrs. John Tapley, Henry Hilyard, and Lewis Rivers. The architectural detail of the Church is considered by competent judges especially good, while the work- manship is very thorough. St. Luke's has been called " one of the chastest and best proportioned Churches in the Diocese." Its acoustic properties are w^ell nigh perfect — a feature of its architectural proportions i i 108 Jnauf/ural Sermon. hi- 114 Inaugural Sermon. they have been the supporters, of the churches. Faith in God, and in the value of unseen things — a faith begotten and nourished in thousands of obscure village churches — founded them and kept them up. And even to-day, although thanks to their own successful work, the clergy are no longer the sole directors of public education, they are still its un- wearied friends and promoters. Enter almost any village of New England — I speak of New England because I know it better than the province in which I have the honour to find myself to-day — and you will find that the chief burden of directing and watching over the common schools falls on the clergy. Churches and schools, churches and popular intelli- gence, are inseparably conne(;ted, and that by no fortuitous bonds. Turn your churches into mills or Avarehouses, as some would have us do, and you will soon find your schools deserted. And that not simply because the schools would be deprived of directors and teachers, but because they would lose the hearty support of the people that attend churches. For the churches themselves are schools — true educational institutions, for perscms of adult age. They train tlie mind and quicken intelligence. The preacher, as such, is an ettec- tive educational agent — a fact, by the way, which it would be well if they should consider who fancy that a smooth and pleasant face protruding from a surplice is abundantly equal to the functions of a parish minister. The preacher who can think, and passably communicate his thoughts, no matter how homely the thought or its expression, sets his hearei*s to think- ing and keeps theni at it, and thus evolves a power of thinking which outside of the church redounds* to the benefit of all the varied interests of the community. I might elaborate this point, as well as the others I have tried to make, much more fully if time permitted. What has been said may suflSce as hints and illustrative instances which your own minds may multiply and extend. Enough, I think, has been suggested, to show that the assertion that the wealth used in building and equipping churches is unproductive so Innuffural Samon. 115 far as the business and industries of the world are concerned, is wide of the mark. Indeed, I can hardly see how such a thought could enter any brain that had vigour ent>ugh to entertain and express it. It indicates a marvellous blindness to facts which, though they do not lie on the surface, lie very near it. But we have dealt as yet with only one of the twin pro- positions of our highly -en lightened friends. Let us turn to the other, which asserts, or at least implies, that material wealth is the only fountain of well-being and happiness so far as this present life goes. Is that true ? If it is, the world ought to be happier now than it was in the days of our fathers ; for the last fifty years have witnessed a most marvelous in- crease of material wealth, and of productive agencies and >t€rests. If mines and railroads, and factories, and giant farms, can make the nations happy, why, then the civilized world in our day ought to be one vast paradise. Is it so? I will not deny that material comforts have greatly increased. We live in better houses, sleep on better beds, wear better, at least finer, clothes. Our lives are filled with more change and variety ; and all this is pleasant and advantageous. But, uj)on the whole, are we happier than our fathers ? Does the shriek of the locomotive at every cross-road, and the clatter of machinery at every stream, fill our hearts with joy and glad- ness ? Have the streams of gold and silver and oil that have burst forth from the bowels of the earth swept away the sorrows and wearinesses of life ? I am sure, no ! Upon the whole, I am strongly inclined to the opinion that there is less contentment and happiness than there used to be. The rapid increase of wealth has filled us all with eagerness to get a share, and has increased restlessness and discontent. There is less sound sleep and innocent, albeit sometimes rude, merriment. There is less of the courage that grapples cheerfully with the hardships and ills of life. Perhaps the good time is coming ; but I am sure it has not come yet. Perhaps it may come, when all churches are utilized for purposes of trade ; but it is :U\ 116 Inaugural Seiinon. certainly an awkward fact for the apostles of the gospel of dividends, that so far that gospel has not made us happy. Alas ! for mankind, if it have no better foundation of happi- ness than the increase of wealth ! The fact is, men have wants which neither factories nor dividends can ever supply. And I am not now alluding to spiritual wants, but to wants that per- tain only to this life. Let us glance at a few of these, and see what bearing the work of the churches has on them. And in the first place man needs the advantages of social life. It is not good for man to be alone. The individual must be complemented in marriage ; the married pair must grow into the family ; the family must grow into the local community, and the local community must grow into the nation ; and even the nation yearns for the larger relationships of the family of nations. Who does most for this want, trade and industry or the churches ? True it is that the principle of association enters largely into trade and industrial pursuits. It combines capital, and it brings together into commercial or manufacturing centres, thousands of people. But neither associated effort nor local cohabitation make social life. Commerce and indus- try draw men together, no doubt, because one has need of the other ; but the principle of competition is constantly tending to drive them apart again ; and it is only a question of balance as to which shall prevail. When competition prevails, that is to say, when profits diminish and wages fall, the natural tenaency is toward strikes and lockouts, earned at times even to riots and murders. Envy and hatred then spring up between employer and employed, and the foundation is laid for that sort of destructive nonsense we hear taiked of under the titles of socialism and communism. In the best of times, and under the mofet favourable condition, commerce and indus try promote social life only in the same sense that they promote ornamental architecture — that is, they furnish the needed material means — the money. But the skill to build must come from another direction ; and so must the faculty of Inaugural Sermon, 117 organizing, extending and elevating social life. And just here the work of the churches steps in, with its perpetual proclamation of the brotherhood of all men. Every o|)en church door, every assembly for common prayer and praise proclaims this fact of human brotherhood. People say some- times : We can pray at home, why should we go to church for it? Yes, you can pray at home and everywhere else. Thank God there is no spot on earth where the voice of the child cannot reach its heavenly Father. You come to church not because you can pray nowhere else, but to quicken your sense of brotherhood. You come together to pray in concert, in order to realize more and more perfectly that you all, young and old, rich and poor, high and low, are children of the one universal Father. That lays the basis for a true social life. And that this is not a mere theory, attractive but illusory, may be seen by the practical results. The social life of the savage is scarcely higher than the gregariousness of a herd of buffaloes or a pack of wolves. As soon as religion comes, even in very imperfect forms, real social life, with all its untold blessings and enjoyments, begins to be, and rises higher and higher as the form of religion becomes truer and nobler. I know full well that thQ social life of Christian communities is yet far below ideal beauty and perfection. But I challenge anybody to deny that the churches are not the centres and sources of the best social life of the age ! I defy anybody to be so stupidly blind as not to see that what of beauty and elevation there is in the social life of the world's Sheffields, Lowells, and Man- chesters, is due to the influence of the churches that are wedged in among the factories. But I turn from this tb another closely connected point. "The poor you have always with you," says the Saviour. No matter how powerful material wealth may be to promote the happiness of those who can get hold of it, there is a very large fraction of mankind that cannot even get enough to buy bread to eat, and then there springs up a special want of social life — the need, on the part of the weak and sick, of charity and ! i :!!! ..«r /I 118 Inaxigural Sermon. benevolence from their stronger fellows. Now, I say that the natural tendency of commerce and industry is to suppress charity and benevolence rather than to cultivate them. Talk of charity and benevolence on Wall street during business hours. Enter a factory and observe the men and women that move about among the machinery. Only strength and health and skill are taken into account and put on the pay-roll. Industry knows men and women only as repositories of so much available power, just as it knows iron, wood, and water. If one of the intelligent, human machines of flesh and blood, drops out from among the unintelligent but stronger machines of iron and steel, by sickness or accident, the vacant place is filled, and the clatter goes on as if nothing had happened. The unfortunate one whose available force is lost or worked out is henceforth unknown in the world of industry. Charity may come and bind his wounds, and feed and shelter him ; but this charity is an angel of God, not a creation of indus- trial art. Trade, pure and simple, does not know charity, and cannot know it. It pays only for what it gets, an^ when it gets nothing, it pays nothing. Here, then, is a want — not a want altogether unsupplied, I am glad to say — but not supplied by trade as such. Asylums, homes, and hospitals, free dispensaries, benevolent societies and associations for mutual assistance abound on all sides, and do r^uch to alleviate suffering and poverty ; but the motive power that stimulates and carries on the work comes not from the factory, but from the church. When the merchant, banker, or mill- owner gives, as they often do largely, they do not on the principles of trade, but under impulses of religious thought and feeling. They do it as members, not of their business guilds, but of the human brotherhood. And now, if you kindly bear with me a little longer, I will allude to one other need of mankind, supplied, albeit indirectly, by religion. I refer to all those forms of human activity to which we give the name of art. The yearning for the beautiful, the perfect, and the sublime, to which art in its Inaugural Sermon. 119 various forms is the response, is less obtrusive than many other needs of man, but not less real. It specially, though by no means exclusively, marks the higher stages of culture, and its gratification is productive of more exquisite enjoyment than attends on the satisfaction of most other human wants. I will not ask whether trade or religion should be credited with this gift. Sculpture, painting, architecture, music, poetry, eloquence, however often absurd, have never ceased to own their indebtedness to religion and religious institutions. The great epic poems of the world are saturated with religion. Sculpture and painting both reached their highest perfection under the influence of religious thought and feeling. As for architecture, its sublimest forms present themselves in Chris- tian churches of the old world ; and in music, what is there to compare with the oratorios and sacred compositions of Christian masters? Art has its birth in the perceptions of the infinite — the infinitely great, the infinitely perfect, the infinitely beautiful. It is the offspring, or better perhaps the twin sister of religion. When man rises to the thought of God — the infinite and all-perfect, when the thought of life in God and with God fills his mind with ideals of perfection and beauty, and his spirit with aspirations afler their realization, then speech becomes too poor, and he seeks expression for his thoughts and feelings in sculpture, painting, but above all in poetry and music. Take away the thought of God, and you kill art at its root, because you trammel the imagination. Tell me, then, whether our churches, by keeping that thought alive, are not rendering a service to art which no other agency can render? Though loth to leave this topic, I must hasten to a close. I have only two more thoughts to express. They concern two objections which I can well conceive to be urged against what has been said. In the first place, it may be said that of the virtues I have spoken of, such as integrity, sobriety and charity, many men are possessed who are not attendants on churches. So, like- 4 I ? 4' I ill if. % ' 'Ml :■ :resent rector preached an historical sermon at the niorning service, in which he reviewed the past tifty years of church and i)arish life. Rev. AV. B. Armstrong preached at the afternoon chilaren's service at 3 p. m., and Canon Brigstocke preaclied in the evening. Special anthems, hymns and carols were sung, and an interesting and profitable day was spent by the parishioners of St. Luke's. Following is the i>rogramme for the day : ST. LUKE'S CHURCH, PORTLAND, K B. 1838-1888. 1 til m JUBILEE SERVICES, SUNDAY Dec. 23rd, 1888. " Ye »haU hallow the fiftieth year: it shall he a Jubilee unto you." Levlt. 25:10. ORDER OF SERVICES. Morning Prayeb. Hymn (Unison) J.W. Elliott. Hark ! hark ! the organ loudly peals, Our thankful hearts inviting To sing our great Creator's praise, (123) Wl 124 Fiftieth Anniversary. Both rich and poor uniting ; Ye heavens and earth rejoice ! And every heart and voice, Your joyous strains upraise, In notes of endless praise. Before His throne forever. Hark! hark I the organ loudly peals, Our thankful hearts inviting To sing the praifee of Christ our King, Both rich and ])oor uniting ; Who left His throne on high, And lowly (-a me to die, That we from earth niight rise. To realms above the skies, And live with Him forever. Hark ! hark ! the organ loudly peals. Our thankful hearts inviting To sing the Holy Spirit's praise. Both rich and poor uniting ; Who bids us flee from sin. And makes us pure within. Till, warmed with heavenly love. We yearn to sing above Glad songs of praise forever ! Hark ! hark ! the organ loudly peals, Our thankful hearts inviting To high upraise our songs of praise, Both rich and poor uniting ! To God, the Father, Son, And Spirit, three in One, Till soaring higher and higher We join the heavenly choir Before His throne forever ! Amen. Fijlidh Anniversary. 125 Proper Psalms — XLVIII-LXXXIV. Te Deum Laudamus, Jackson. Jubilate, . . Kettle. Anthem — " Send out thy light," Gounod. (From Psalms XLIII and XX). Send out Thy light and Thy truth, let them lead me, and let them bring me to Thy holy hill. O God, then will I go unto Thy altar. On the harp we will praise Thee, O Lord our God. Why O Soul art thou sorrowful, and why cast down within me ? Still trust the loving kindness of the God of thy strength, and my tongue shall yet praise Him who hath pleaded my cause. Lord our God, Thou wilt save Thine anointed. Thou wilt hear us from heaven. Though in chariots some put their faith, our trust is in Thee. They are brought down and fallen, but the Lord is our helper, we shall not be afraid. Send out Thy light and Thy truth, let them lead me and let them bring me to Thy holy hill. Send out Thy light, O Lord, our God. Hymn. O, Triune God ! who dwelt of old Between the cherubim of gold, And on Thy sacred mercy-seat Didst manifest Thy Presence sweet , Oh, deign to shed upon this place The glorious brightness of Thy face ! May every supplication here, And every penitential tear, * Be heard and seen by Thee above And treasured in Thy book of love ! May every hymn of praise we sing An answer sweet of comfort bring. Take our poor offerings, though they be Too poor, alas ! to honour Thee, Who gav'st Thy life our souls to save, 'I <(' 126 Fiftieth Anniversary. And win them peace beyond the grave ; Who, sinless, hung upon the tree In Calvary's bitter agony. Bless all Thy servants, young and old. Who gather in this happy fold ! Relieve their sorrow and distress ; Compassionate their feebleness. Make them obedient to Thy laws, And noble champions of Thy cause. Here, in this blessed place of rest, May many, long by sin opprest. Find refuge in some softer hour, And learn Thy Spirit's healing power ! Here may their doubts and sorrows cease. Here may they know Thy perfect jMjace. Amen. Hymn before Seumon, Sehtimann. I love Thy Kingdom, Lord, The House of Thine abode, The Church our blest Redeemer saved With His own precious blood. I love Thy Church, O God, Her walls before Thee stand, Dear as the apple of Thine eye. And graven on Thy hand. For her my tears shall fall ; For her my prayere ascend ; To her my cares and toils be given, Till toils and cares shall end. Beyond my highest joy I prixe her heavenly ways. Her sweet comnumion, solemn vows, Her hynuis of love and praise. Fiftieth Annivei'sary. 1 27 Jesus, Thou Friend divine, Our Saviour and our King, Thy hand from every snare and foe Shall great deliverance bring. Sure as Thy truth shall last, To Zion shall be given The brightest glories earth can yield, And brighter bliss of heaven. Amen. Sermon (Historical), By the Rector of the Parish. Offertory. Organ Voluntary (with Pedal Obligato), . . . . W. Hill. Hymn. Father, holy Father, See, Thy children come. Singing s-^ngs of triumph. To their spirit's home. Long we hoped and waited — Prayed and labored long, 'Ere the sacred fabric Rose secure and strong. Firet the deep foundations, Laid in steadfast faith ; Then the walls upspringing From the depths beneath ; Then the pillared arches. Spanning choir and nave, As the hopes we cherish Reach beyond the grave. On the plains of Bethel, To the patriarch's eyes Thou show'dst the mystic ladder Reaching to the skies. ^1 m 1 41 iJLi WL r 128 Fiftieth Annirei'sary. So be this Thy temple, To the hearts that wait, Beauteous as the threshold Of the Heavenly Gate. Father, holv Father ! See, Thy children come, Singing songs of triumph To their spirit's home. Bless to us Thy worship, Bless to us Thy Word ; Let us say at parting — We have seen the Lord ! Collect and Benediction. Organ Postlude — Last Chorus, .... Amen. Beethoven. AFTERNOON. CHILDREN'S SERVICE. Hymn, Sir Arthur Sullivan. Angels' voices ever singing Round Thy throne of light, Angel harps, forever ringing, Rest not day nor night ; Thousands only live to bless Thee, And confess Thee, Lord of might. Thou, who art beyond the farthest Mental eye can scan, Can it be that thou regardest Songs of sinful man ? Can we feel that Thou art near us And wilt hear us? Yea, we can. Fi/tidh Anniversary. Yea, we know Thy love rejoices O'er each work of Thine ! Thou didst ears and hands and voices For Thy praise combine ! Craftsman's art and music's measure For Thy pleasure, didst design. Here, Great God, to-day we offer Of Thine own to Thee ; And for Thine acceptance proffer. All unworthily. Hearts and minds, and hands and voices, In our choicest melody. Amen. 129 m Proper Psalms — LXXXVII-CXXI. Macnificat, Randall. Deus Misereatur, Scarsbi'ook. Hymn AFTER Third Collect, Cruyer, \64S. Now thank we all our God, With heart and hands and voices, Wiio wondrous things hath done. In whom this world rejoices; Who from our motiier's arms Hath blessed us )n our way With countless gifls of love, And still is ours to-day. i ^:l M Oh, nmy this bounteous Goresence ant all its anxieties and deep burdens of respon.>*ibility, it is a blessed life. To argue with the sceptic, to guide the inijuiring penitent, to make the sick or In'reavcd feel the bl»'ssedne> of affliction, the ^lory of patient endur- ance and «>f joylui acfpiiescence, to harmonize the different Historical SVrwjow. 145 shades of belief, character, disposition, and experience which are always discoverable in every church, in baptism and in communion, at bridal and at burial, in social and in sanctuary intercourse, to set an example worthy of the flock — to be and to do all this which constitutes the ideal of a Christian minister, is brethren, I, know, an ideal hard for a man to attain, and in honestly striving for which a pastor should be judged very kindly and considerately by his people. That the aged pastor who has now gone to his rest reached very near to this ideal, I believe is proved by his long, laborious life among you. Call to remembrance his life and labours among you. It will do you good. Remember his counsels. Imitate his example. Serve the God Whom he served and to Whose loving service he so often pointed you." Mrs. Ilarrijion was a woman of earnest Christian charac- ter, gentle, loving, and sympathetic ; the influence of her example, of her j)esice-loving and peace-making dis^pos-ition, proved of great assistance to her husband in his pastoral relations. " She did him good and not evil all the days of his life." Her memory is dear to her surviving children, and her self-denying and un()btru."?ive Christian cliaracter ven- erated by those parishioners of St. Luke's who remember her. In April, 1S4(), on account of nervous prostration brought on by uvurwrnk, Mr. Harrison was ^un-anted a twelve months leave of abst'iKv. He went to Massachusetts, and th«fre became acijuainted with her bishfu]), the Kt. lu-v. Mamiton Kas^tburn. srtir whom Mr. Harrison nanu"i niic of hi> - ii>. His piaci' was supplied by tlu; Uev. WillLaru Hover. adM Wy the Uev. Richard Simoiuls. During the hitter years of h's reetor-hip, xktt aMnv ^ the parish, always exacting and onerous, and » idly <■»<■• a man of advancing years, Canon llarrisot va^ amtaMf assisted in his work by two curates — the litT. Wiiilifa«i Harrison Tillev, nannvl after the Rector bv his fatfcifr. ^ar honoured and respected Lieutenant (.Jovernor, and the Kev. J 4 V. 1-JG Historical SeiTnoii. William B. Armstrong, who (as &\^o his father) is with us to-day. Mr. Tilley's curacy extended from June 80, 1867. to November 26, 1871. Shortly after taking priest's orders iu the y6ar 1867, at the age of 23, he was called to the curacy of St. Luke's. Beloved by his congregation, universally esteemed by Christian people of whatever sect or name, he left behind him a short but brilliant record of noble and suc- cessful work done in the Master's cause, a record graven upon the hearts and lives of his parishioners. The secret of his phenomenal success, both here in Portland, as afterwards iu London and in Toronto, lay not so much in his scholarly acquisitions and in eloquent oratory — though he possessed both — as in his warm and winning personality. He possessed that gift, which, like the poetic one, must be given to a man at his birth, which cannot be made to order, though, per- haps, it niuy be cultivated and to some extent enlarged — I mean the power of attracting to oneself, of embracing and ever holding fast, not merely admirers but genuine friends. For want of a better name we, in our ignorance of the subtle and mysterious laws and forces of our complex organization, call it pei-sonal magnetism. Mr. Tilley possessed the remarkable faculty — all the more remarkable and influential when possessed by a godly, righteous man, as it is often possessed by bad, unrighteous men — of drawing all to him, whether old or young, and of making men, oltentimes much older than himself, ueady to be guided by his advice or opinion. The universally and supremely attractive man was Jesus the Christ. He once said, "And I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto Me." It is something, nay much, to draw all men unto ourselves. It is infinitely better and higher to be instrur.:ental in drawing all men unto Him — to bring the scattered and otherwise unattracted atoms within the powerful scope of the world's great maguet. Historical Sermon. 14' Only too brief was Mr. Tilley's stay in St. Luke'j», niui hi.s departure, hastened by what so often proves a fatal though laudable ambition ; viz., to secure, in our loyal love to the Master, a wider portion of His vineyard in which to work, — his departure, I say, from your midst was universally regretted. For about a year he was assistant at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul's, London, Ontario. And, then, for four years he was the first and beloved rector of the Bishop Cronyn Memorial Church. He then was elected first assistant in the Cathedral of St. James', Toronto, His relations, while there, to his senior colleague, the Ven. Dean Grassett, were so cordial and satisfactory that the whole city of Toronto was filled with the fragrance of the attection. The exquisite spectacle was daily witnessed of a young man looking with unfeigned satisfaction upon every token of reverence and gratitude towards his senior, and of an old man stimulating confidence and hope towards his junior. But the strain of pastoral labour proved too great. Before a year had passed away he complained of a dull pain in the head and of inability to sleep. A journey of 1,100 miles was taken to these Maritime Provinces. He visited Portland, and if he had been able he would have preached again in his beloved St. Luke's. But medical skill failed to relieve him, and again he took his weary and sleep- less journey homeward. Tubercular disease of the brain set in, and, with occasional flashes of consciousness, he passed away one Sunday morning to the rest in Jesus, to the joys in Paradise, and the blessed antepasts of Heaven. His mortal remains were consigned to their last resting place, St. Paul's Cemetery, London. At the services in the Memorial Church, Bishop Hellmuth, of Huron, read the opening sentences and Bishop McLean, of Saskatchewan, the lesson. The services at the grave, where over 1,000 persons were assembled, were conducted by Bishop Hellmuth, and, as in the Church, were of the most impressive character. It seems not too much to say, humanly speaking, that, had Mr. Tilley remained here and succeeded to the soon vacant rectorship, he would have 11' 4 !!' '•\ nl 148 Historical Sofnon. k III: VI >!! I Ril been alive and with you to-day enjoying the esteem and reverence of a devoted people. But God's ways are not our ways, nor His thoughts our thoughts. It is not always safe or wise to " speak humanly." A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things he possesses nor yet in the num- ber of years he lives. By Him with whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years. His minis- ters are placed as a general places his subordinate officers, often in the thickest and deadliest of the fight, but just where and when He in His superintending and inscrutable wisdom thinks bcj-t. He says to this one go and he goeth, and to another come and he cometh. And so it is useless to say, as we are often tempted in our moments of blind inability to see the leadings of God's providence, it is useless to utter that murmur which always meets, whether from a Martha or a Mary, with our Master's rebuke : " Lord if Thou hadst been here my brother had not died." It is better and truer to say, " Lord, in this very death Thou hast been here." How often is it true of His ministers as it was once true of Himself: "It is expedient for you that I go away." In the morning of life, with all its opportunities of personal impi'ovement and advancing usefulness before him, he was called away at the comparatively early age of thirty-three. As when we see a bright and cloudless morning enwrapped in sudden night we feel a peculiar sadness — only that faith assures us that his morning is brightening on, where night and cloud are not, towards the perfect day In Edmund Burke's pathetic reference to the death of his son, after speaking of his superiority " in science, in erudition, in genius, in taste, in honor, in generosity, in humanity, in every liberal sentiment and every liberal accomplisiiment," he says, " he had in himself a salient living spring of generous and manly action." Then, his feelings of personal gi'ief, overcome by his sense of calamity which had fallen upon the community, he adds : " In this exigent moment, the loss of a finished man is not easily supplied." Though summoned in Historical Setmon. 149 the morning of life, St. Luke's Church, Portland, the Cronyn Memorial Church, London, Ontario, and St. James' Cathedral, Toronto, may well say, as they think of Harrison Tilley, " the loss of a finished man — a man of decided ability, of educa- tion, of singular purity and honour, giving his mind to the highest studies and his life to the highest interests of man and of society — such a loss * is not easily supplied.'" As we look back upon it we are tempted, in our shortsightedness, to call it " an incomplete life " And yet, in God's clear and all-penetrating vision, it may have been a very complete life. " For what we sow we may not hope to reap, Perfect fruition may not seek to win ; Not till, work-weary, we have fallen asleep, Shall blossom blow, or fruit be gathered in. Let it be so. Upon our darkened eyes A light more pure than noontide rays shall shine, If pain of ours have helped our race to rise By just one hair's-breadth nearer the divine." Mr. Tilley was a Churchman, true and loyal to the communion of which he was an honourable and honoured minister, prizing her holy ways beyond his highest joy, and ever praying and striving for the increase of her peace and prosperity. And yet, while holding his own principles ■ .-inly and decidedly, he failed not to see, and respect, and love the good qualities of those from whom he was constrained to differ. His charity was of the widest kind, embracing within its range all wiio loved the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity and who followed Him in humility and truth. It was not my pleasure ever to have met Mr. Tilley. My conceptions of his personal appearance are gathered chiefly from his photograph which I possess — a face almost of maidenly purity and delicacy, a face full of grace and truth, the face of a saint and a scholar, in itself a beautiful and convincing sermon. But I hope to meet him some day and l|ii n IS IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) 1.0 I.I 11111= 12.5 IM mi 116 llll'^ II 2.0 1.8 11.25 1.4 1.6 ., 4" ^ ^ <^ /a '/, m ^^/ M^ "^ '/ /A PhotograpMc Sdences Corporation 23 WEST MAIN STREIT WEBSTER, N.Y. 14580 (716) 872-4503 &. -^ ! I 150 Historical Sermon. li i the aged rector of whom I have been speaking — as I trust all of you, brethren, will meet them both some day, when the sad farewells of earth shall have been exchanged for the triumphant congratulations of heaven. And who will say that that is a mere idle fancy ? It was a custom in the early church to bury the people with their faces to the east — the minister with his face to the west, in the belief that the people would rise at the last advent, at the final coming, facing their pastor. An idle fancy ? Nay, who will not rather say that the pleasures, the knowledges, the rewards of that eternally progressive life, will be the sweeter and greater, because of the renewed and heavenly intercourse between pastor and people ? Canon Harrison was also greatly assisted in his arduous labours by the Rev. William B. Armstrong, M'ho for three years and three months (November, 1871, to March, 1875), in pulpit, in Sunday school work, and in parochial vis '.ting, won the esteem of his people and possesses to-day their kind remem- brances. On the resignation of Canon Harrison, the Rev. F, H. Almon, as I have already stated, was elected to the vacant rectorship. His term of service covered three years and two months. During his rectorship (after worshipping for nearly a year in the Temperance Hall, 8imonds street) the parish finished the substantial and commodious school room in the basement of the church, and erected the walls, roof and spire (all of them only partially finished) of the main church edifice. Mr. Almon's rectorship was especially marked by his earnest and eloquent advocacy of the temperance cause, and by his unwearying devotion to the spiritual and bodily wants of those who were in " trouble, sorrow, need, sickness, or any other adversity." But however able and devoted its ministers no church is continuously and healthily prosperous unless the energies of its laymen are encouraged and organized. From the begin- ning St. Luke's Church has been fortunate in possessing Wardens and Vestry, as well as laymen holding no official Hidorlcal Sermon. 151 13 of ln- lal position, who have been loyal to her interests and generous to her needs. The first Wardens and Vestry of Grace Church, Rev. Gilbert L. Wiggins, Minister, were not elected till Easter Monday, 1836. The following are the names: Wardens — John C. Waterbury and Thomas Ruddock. Vestrymen — Charles Simonds, Thomas McMackin, William Lawton, John W. Smith, James P. Payne, Robert Payne, Francis Smith, Francis L. Ruddock, William Olive, Samuel Dalton, Noble Ruddock, William Mills. Among the names of Vestrymen elected in 1838, 1 find the name of John G. Tobin (a member of our present Vestry), the oldest living Vestryman. The name of David Tapley first occurs on the list of Vestrymen elected in 1847, and that of Robert A, Gregory (our present senior Warden), on the list for 1855. The name of John Tapley appears in 1871. Several of these men. for example, Thomas Ruddock, Francis L. Ruddock, John W. Smith, John Hawes a:nd James Briggs, were prominent in the then flourishing industry of shipbuild- ing, while Robert Payne was member of the House of Assembly, and Charles Simonds, as member and speaker, was connected with the House of Assembly for thirty-five years. S. L. Tilley held oflices in St. Luke's either as Vestry Clerk or Warden (a part of the time he held both positions), from 1841 to 1855, a period of fourteen years. Joseph W. Lawrence, then, as now, living in St. John, was prominent as a succe^ful Sunday school teacher from 1840 to 1848, and was a most eflicient superintendent of the school from 1842 to 1848. Li speaking of St. Luke's men who were " loyal to her interests and generous to her needs," especially would I men- tion the name of the late Hon. Charles Simonds, who was largely instrumental in building Grace Church, and who afterwards deeded to St. Luke's the plot of ground on which it now stands, besides liberally contributing to its erection. As an unexpected example of his generosity I will briefly refer to an incident narrated to me by Mr. Wm. Kilpatrick, n 152 Historical Sermon, II a Vestryman at that time, and now enjoying the ripe old age of eighty-five. At a Vestry Meeting Mr. Simonds inquired why it was that a note for something over S500, held by him agaijist the Vestry, was not taken up. At that time 8ir Leonard Tilley, then plain Mr. Tilley and Vestry Clerk, asked him whether he had the note with him. Yes, said he. How much interest is due upon it? inquired the Vestry Clerk. Upon being informed of the amount, Mr. Tilley then and there paid it. Now, said Mr. Simonds, are there any other corporation notes due ? Upon being answered that the only note of that kind in existence was the one then held by himself, he deliberately tore up the note, cast it into the fire, and said, " you are now out of debt, gentlemen, keep your- selves so." There have been three bequests to the Church during my rectorship — one of S200, from Robert Middlemore, a former Vestry Clerk ; the second of $200, from the late James T. Kennedy (worthy of our special remembrance for his timely loan with which we purchased our new organ), and the third of $600, from Mrs. Richard Scoles, who recently died at the advanced age of ninety-eight. The communion table was given by the late Joseph Ruddock; the font {in memonam Canon Harrison and the Rev. W. Harrison Tilley) by James T. Kennedy; the pulpit and reading desk by Mr. Edward Sears, Sen.; the clock by Mr. Richard C. Hawes of Liverpool, England ; and the bell by Mr. Jeremiah Harrison. The new chandelier (to be lighted for the first time this evening), as also the gallery door screen, are the jubilee gift of the juvenile classes in our Sunday school. The new iron columns in the Sunday school room, as also the new Brussels carpet on the platform are jubilee gifts from the main body of the school. Several memorial stained glass windows have been promised — and by help of generous members of the parish we hope to see in the not distant future, every window a memorial one. A chancel window in memorv of the three Historical Sermon. 153 it re le w ee deceased pastors, Rev. Gilbert L. Wiggins, the Rev. Canon Harrison, and Rev. Harrison Tilley ; $300 of the cost to be borne by Mrs. Richard C. Hawes of Liverpool (a daughter of Canon Harrison), $100 by Mr. Thomas Millidge, $50 by Sir Leonard Tilley, and $400 by the Corporation of St. Luke's Church. A side window in memory of the late Thomas Hilyard (a prominent Vestryman), the gift of his widow and sons. A side window in memory of William Shives, the gift of Mrs. Shives and Mr. William Shives Fisher. Two hymn boards, the gift of the Rector. I am speaking of new things just now. But here in our Churcli, where the new stands so conspicuous, there is more of the old than new, and I am not sure that the same thing would not be true, if everything about us to-day were new — for moral and spiritual things are more real and more essential than stone, and wood, and iron, and glass. And yet I would not glorify the past at the expense of the future. God requires the past but He requires the future also. The new things which we see around us to-day, and other new things w'hich we expect to see around us in the future, must be symbols of a renewing and growing spirit in our church life. Let us not be fresh and young in the material fabric of our edifice and dead within the spiritual one. We must be as the Apostle beautifully images it, " lively stones build up a spiritual house." " Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost." " Ye are the temple of the living God." Let the growth in material prosperity be but the suggestion of a spiritual prosperity. Let the richness and beauty of architec- ture, and form, and colour, and decoration, be suggestive of a deeper richness and beauty in all our lives. And now bear with me if I speak a few words of myself — an occasion like the present seems to establish its propriety. August 28, 1878, I was elected to the rectorsliip of this Church. On November 10, 1878, I entered upon my d'lti'^ as your religious teacher and pastor. The acceptance of the office was made with self-distrust, with a reliance upon your lil ll 154 Historical Sermon. candor and kindness, which has been fully met, with an entire confidence in God to aid the honest performance of duty and the diligent use of those talents, be they greater or less, which He has committed to any of His servants. My constant and great regret has been that my strength and ability so imper- fectly corresponded with my wishes — with my ideal. I rejoice to-day that I am permitted to bear a public and grateful testimony to the kindness and fidelity of your attach- ment and conduct towards me. Your good opinion has been a most grateful reward for my imperfect services. During these ten years of my rectorship there has been no interrup- tion in the harmony or courtesy of the Wardens and Vestry toward the Rector — both our business and religious meetings have been eminently peaceful. I have gone in and out among you, not as often as I could have wished, but always, I believe, welcomed — the onerous and multifarious duties of my profession in a large and scattered parish like this, neces- sarily places restrictions upon social pastoral visiting. I thank you for the kindness and consideration most of you have shown me. I cannot hope to have quite satisfied everybody — that was hardly to be expected. But I have always tried to be frank with you, and in all I have done or said to seek the best interests and advancement of the parish. As I look back upon the past decade, I see years not without their little trials, and yet, to me at least, full of happiness, and, for the most part, devoid of those petty quarrels which will sometimes come to plague our peace in church homes as well as other homes. Whatever be my future, no church can ever be to me just like this. There are associations about it which have struck deep roots into my heart, and which no other spot on earth could duplicate. There are priceless remembrances gathered here which will go with me, I trust, to my dying day. The great interests of home and family, and no small part of the dearest friendships of life are associated with you. And so I can say from my heart, " God bless St. Luke's and all her children within her." Historical Sermon. 155 And now it remains for me only to give a brief summary of my labours here. Not to speak particularly of the Sunday or week day services, and of extra parochial work which I have done while here : I have officiated at 523 baptisms, 132 marriages, presented 137 for confirmation, and followed 423 to their last earthly resting place. To those 423 dead I have paid something like 5,000 pastoral visits during their sickness and decline. . I mention this only for the purpose of showing to the healthy and well what a large part of a clergyman's time and share of his sympathy, which must needs be inexhaustible, is necessarily given to the sick and dying. As I make this hurried review what tender memories crowd upon my mind of those now sainted who have wor- shipped within these walls ! I look around to-day, and in the light of memory what well-known forms come back to fill the vacant seats, and how many familiar names arise to my lips. Herbert Wetmore, little Harry Farmer, Jane Cunard, Helen Wheaton, your old Rector Canon Harrison, Myrtle Holly, Robert Middlemore, Richard Scoles, George Smith, Louisa Dale, Francis L. Ruddock, Joseph Ruddock, Harry Day, Israel Merritt, Mrs. Oscar Wetmore, Alexander Barnhill, Harry Tapley, William Irvine, Mr. and Mrs. William Knight, Captain Hatheway, Florrie McLeery, Louisa Kiipatrick, Philip Nase, Lily Lawton, Mrs. Francis Ruddock, Mrs. David Tapley, James T. Kennedy, Robert Wiley, undertaker (the grave-diggers and buriers of the dead must themselves die), Mrs. Archibald Tapley, Shadrach Holly, Lewis Rivers, Edith Mowry, Mrs. Richard Scoles, Mrs. Fred. Sayrc, and a host of others — dear little children in the freshness and innocency of youth — the old and wrinkled and bed-ridden, whose forms fill so many undulating hillocks under this vesture of winter snow. The blessed dead who have died in the Lord! Let us emulate them in faith and works, beseeching God to give us grace so to follow their good examples that with them we may be partakers of His heavenly kingdom. ■ r ! fit I ,tm 156 Historical Sermon . <4\ M And now in closing, let me say to you, love your church ; work for it, pray for it. Remember it in your deeds of mercy and charity, and — may I not urge ? — in the provisions of your last will and testament. " As God hatli prospered you " — prospered you in health as well as in wealth, in your family as well as in your business — give God a return for each profitable venture, or bargain, or investment. If you have had safe return from voyage by land or sea, if you have recovered from sickness, if in any direction you have reason- ably prospered — and some of you have prospered even beyond your fondest expectations — then give God a thank- offering — a jubilee offering. Love your church, faithfully attend her services, and heartily join in them. Strengthen the hands of your pastor and encourage his heart by earnest co-operation with him in every good word and work. Let each one say of St. Luke's, those words of the hymn we have just sung : For her my tears shall fall ; For her ray prayers ascend ; To her my cares and toils be given ; Till toils and cares shall end. , il It is fitting, dear friends, that this anniversary day should be celebrated by us and our children. It is fitting that we should call to mind the way the Lord our God hath led us, and recount the wonderful things He bath done for us. Let it be a day of grateful enjoyment. Let it be a day of Christian endeavour. Let it be a day of pious resolutions, of renewed consecration. My first sermon as your Rector was from the words : " Forgetting those things that are behind." To-day I would emphasize the opposite thought. Remember the past because God remembers it. " God requireth that which is past." " Consider the days of old and the years that are past." Looking at the past, may we ofller thanksgiving as we say from our hearts : " Hitherto hath the Lord helped us.*' Sunday School Jubilee Chrislmas Festival. 157 Looking at the future, as we must not forget to do, may we say : " Peace be within thy walls." " They shall prosper that love thee." '* I will wish thee prosperity." " I will seek to do thee good." Then will our God bless us. And then might the Psalm- ist's magnificent description of Zion's beauty, which we have read from one of the Psalms appointed for to-day, be applied to our beloved Church : " The hill of Zion is a fair place and the joy of the whole earth. God is well known in her palaces as a sure refuge. Let Mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad because of thy judgments. Walk about Zion, and go round about her and tell the towers thereof. Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces, that ye may tell it to the generation following. For this God is our God forever and forever. He will be our Guide even unto death." Amen. On the following Wednesday, St. Stephen's Day, December 2(1, at eight o'clock, p. ni., the Jubilee CMiristmas Festival of the Snndav school attracted a large and a[>preciative audience — the spacious school room was conij)letely filled, and a genuine holiday feeling pervaded the audience. Everything went on pleasantly and successfully,- and applause was liberally and deservedlv bestowed. « The room had recentlv undergone extensive altera- tion and renovation. The two memorial iron eolunms had been erected ; the platform, fittingly and tastefully decorated for the occasion, had been covered with a new handsome Brussels carpet, the gift oT the school ; the pillars and wainscotting freshly painted, and the walls finished in a heautifullv tinted alahastine — on the latter hung the six largo mottoes, framed in antique oak, and presented to the school by Mr. AV. 8. Fisher. The occasion was graced with the welcome presence of Sir Leonard and Lady Tilley, and of Joseph W. i its Ill 158 Sunday School Lawrence, Ksq., both of these ifentleiiieu haviiiff been former superintendents of, and teachers in, the seliooh Tlie following; was the programme for the eveninsj:, Miss Ik'ssie Farmer presiding at the piano: HT. LTKE'S CUnuril SUNDAY SCHOOL, Portland. N. B. 3xx\)\kc (£l)nstmas Jcstiml, IDcbucsliaM (Jrocning, Dec. 26. 1838-1888. PROGRAMME. 1. Prayer, Rector. 2. Recitation — " In Excelsis Gloria." May Carle, When Christ was born of pure Marie, In Bethlehem, that fair citie, Angels sang with mirth and glee, In Excelsis Gloria ! In Excelsis, In Excelsis, In Excelsis Gloria ! The shepherds saw those Angels bright. To them appearing with great light, Who said, " God's Son is born to-night." In Excelsis Gloria ! This King is come to save mankind, In Scripture promised as we find. Therefore this song have we in mind, In Excelsis Gloria ! Grant us, O Lord, for Thy great grace. In Heaven, the bliss to see Thy face, Where we may sing to Thy solace. In Excelsis Gloria. Jubilee Christmas Festival. 159 3. Carol — "In Excelsis Gloria." School. 4. Scripture Recitation. By Twenty-Four Scholars of School. 5. Recitation -"It was the Calm and Silent Night," Bessie Stevenson. Alfred Domett. 6. Carol — " The Inn was full." School. The inn was full, there wa. no room For Mary pure and mild ; So in the rocky manger bed Was born the Saviour Child. On stable low the stars shone bright, That holy night, so many years ago. The angels in the heavens sang Of peace, to men good-will. While shepherds watched their sleeping flocks On fair Judea's hill ; On earth below the stars shone bright. That holy night, so many years ago. O, Saviour, in Thy manger bed. Whom love hath brought from heaven, Whose blood hath washed our guilt away. And all our sins forgiven, With holy glow the stars shine bright. This Christmas night, upon our fields of snow. Teach us the song the angels sang, Grant us Thy peace on earth ; As in the manger, in our hearts, This Christmas be Thy birth ; And they shall glow as stars shine bright, This Christmas night, upon our fields of snow. lifiii m ! I '■1: ■ ii I w i n 160 Sunday ScJiool 7. Recitation — " O Little Town of Bethlehem," Bev. Philips Brooks. Henry Waddell Stevens. 8. Quartette — "In Bethlehem." Mrs. E. R. Gregory, Miss Bertha Knight, Mr. Wm. H. Smith, Mr. Richard Farmer. 9. Ten Minutes Address, . . . Joseph W. Lawrence, Esq. 10. Recitation — " Ring Sweet Bells of Christendom," Harriet McEwen Kimball. Alma Mowry. 11. Carol — "Christmas Bells are Ringing." School. The Christmas bells are ringing, And little children singing, That Christ the Jjord was born. To take awav our sadness, To give us joy and gladness, Upon that Holy morn. When in the lowly manger Was laid the little stranger. Who is the Lord of might, The angels sang the story Of how He'd left His glory. Upon that starry night. From sorrow, i,i^ars and sighing, From pain, and woe, and dying, To save us by His birth ; To live a little Child, The Saviour, meek and mild. Upon this sinful earth. Behold the tidings come to all. So praise Him, children, great and small, Jubilee Chrisimaa Festival. 161 Who is our Lord and King ; " Praise Him who doeth all things well, Praise Him who came on earth to dwell," Let all His creatures sing. 12. Quartette — "Over Hills and Over Plains." Mrs. William H. Smith, Mrs. William Ruddock, Mr. William H. Smith, Mr. Thomas Dale. 13. Ten Minutes' Address, Sir Leonard Tilley, 14. Recitation — "One Day for Christ," . . . Phwbe Cary, Maggie Shaw. 15. Christmas Song — "Love that Never Dies," Cherubim. Lena Kitbins. 16. Recitation — "Though Rude Winds Usher Thee, Sweet Day," ...... Samuel Richards. Bertha FoRiJEs. 17. Recitation "Ring Out, Wild Bells," . . . Tennyson. Agnes Chalmers. 18. Carol — "Wonderful Night," The Bishop of Florida. Wonderful Night ! Angels and shining immortals Thronging thine ebony portals, Fling out their banners of light : Wonderful Night ! Wonderful Night ! Dreamed of by prophets and sages ; Manhood redeemed for all ages. Welcomes thy hallowing might, Wonderful Night ! Wonderful Night ! Down o'er the stars to restore us, Leading His flame-winged chorus Comes the Eternal to sight : Wonderful Night ! I ^mmm III I 162 Sunday School Wonderful Night ! Sweet be thy rest to the weary, Making the dull heart and dreary Laugh in a dream of delight, Wonderful Night! Wonderful Night! Let me, as long as life lingers, Sing with the cherubim singers, " Glory to God in the height," Wonderful Night! 19. Presentation of Prizes. Benediction. Mr. Lawrence's speech was characteristic. Li a few opening witty remarks lie at once placed himself at ease with his audience, after wliich he proceeded to " talk history " in his own interesting and inimitable manner. The first Sunday school in St. John, he said, was organized in 1826, and as he was then a scholar in it, he retained a lively recollection of one of its first teachers — John C. Waterbury, a man who was, in a great measure, instrumental in erecting the old Grace Church. The first Church Sunday School in Portland was organized in Grace Church in 1833, with three teachers and six pupils. When in 1834 it celebrated its first anniversary, the number of pupils had increased to 129. Several pleasing references were then made to the work in New Brunswick of Bishop Inglis of Nova Scotia. In 1840 he consecrated the old church which stood on the site of the present St. Luke's, and on the evening of the same day administered the rite of con- firmation to forty-four persons. On August 29, 1841, he preached at the Evening Service in St. Luke's, and Jubilee Christmas Festival. 1G3 that was the last time the Bishop of Nova Scotia preached in St. John city or county. Mr. Lawrence also referred to Canon Harrison, telling of the first time, and the last, that he heard him preach; viz., in old Trinity, on his arrival in St. John from the West Indies, and in the same Church on the occasion of the death of the Eev. Dr. J. W. D. Gray. Sir Leonard Tilley, in opening his address, said that he regretted very much that, on account of being detained at Fredericton, he was not able to be present on Sunday last to listen to the historical sermon of the Rector, a report of which he had read in the morn- ing papers. The references made therein to Canon Harrison, he could fully indorse. From 1841 to 1855, during which time he had the honour of being Vestry Clerk, the relations existing between them were of the closest. He looked upon Canon Harrison as a father, in return he himself was regarded as a son. After speaking in high eulogy of Mr. Harrison, he feelingly referred to his old pastor's dying message to himself. Sir Leonard thanked the Rector of St. Luke's for his kind and sympathetic references to his son, the Rev. Harrison Tilley, and then indulged in some old- time reminiscences. Of the eleven Wardens of the Church who had held office prior to the terms of the present Wardens, himself was the only one living. Of the Vestrymen who had held office while he was Vestry Clerk, 1841-1855, only six are now living; viz., John G. Tobin, John R. Haws, Dr. William Harding, Robert W. Crookshank, David Tapley and William Kilpatrick. Of the many Sunday school teachers associated with me in teaching during the fifteen years I was a teacher * * Sir Leonard was also for many years Superintendent of the School. m li■.u^^lvLr^r^^- ^".'Hitf'W!w?yw!gfff i! t ! JG4 Sunday School in St. Luke's, I can find only the same small number (six) now alive, and of the children then under our charge, how many of them are now living, I cannot say. Sir Leonard, continuing his address, made refer- ences to associations formed in the Sunday School, and their influence for good ; advised the teachers present to win the hearts of the children bv love and kindness, and pointed out to the children the many advantages which they jDossess over the children of forty years ago. During the course of his address, as old and tender memories crowded upon him. Sir Leonard seemed deeply affected, and, touched by sympathetic recollections, many among his audience listened with glowing hearts and moistened eyes. At the close of the last carol on the programme, the Rector was about to proceed with the " presentation of prizes," when he was suddenly, but quietly, interrupted by Mr. S. G. Kilpatrick, the efficient Secretary of the School, who step[)ed forward and read the following address : " To the Rev. L. G. Stevens, B. D., Rector of St. Luke's Church, Portland, N. B. : " Reverend Dear Sir — " We, as officers and teachers in the Sunday School, and membei-s of the Choir of St. Luke's Church, have great pleasure, at this Jubilee celebration of our Church, and especially at this joyous Christmas season, in presenting to you this Chair, as a slight token of our respect and esteem and of our appreciation of your earnest and faithful work among us. It is our earnest hope and desire that the cordial relations of love and friendship existing between us in the Sunday School and Choir of our Church may be strengthened more and more, and that your ministrations in this Parish Jubilee Christmas Festival. 165 may be blessed to the welfare of your people, and that, being enabled, by God's help, to turn many to righteousness, and to build up many in our most holy faith, you may have a multi- tude in this place for your joy and crown of rejoicing in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at His coming. It is our earnest prayer that we may be long permitted to labour together, and to see the work of the Lord prospering in the growth and firmer establishment of our Church in this City. " Wishing Mrs. Stevens, yourself and your family many happy returns of this Christmas season, and with every further good wish for your health and prosperity, " We are. Reverend Dear Sir, Yours faithfully, "Richard Farmer, " (For the Officers and Teachers of the Sunday School). "William H. Smith, " (For the Members of the Choir) ." The Rector was genuinely surprised. He had looked upon the handsome Chair as a part of the special " par- lour platform arrangement " for the evening. His own large arm chair he had carried down to Mr. Lawrence, and during the evening had taken free and easy posses- sion of the " parlour " chair, with no idea that it was a slightly premature possession. In brief, but earnest words, he thanked the donors for their thoughtful gift of a beautiful Study-Chair, fully reciprocated the sentiments of loyalty and esteem as contained in the address, and expressed the hope that this day of jubilee might only be a brief foretaste of that eternal and heavenly jubilee, in which pastor and people would fully and satisfyingly share. An added point and interest were given to the address and presentation from the fact, not generally known beforehand, that it was the Rector's birthday. k: ' Im IGG Sunday School " The heart hath its own memory like the mind, And in it are enshrined , The precious keepsakes, into which is wrought The giver's loving thought." The presentation of prizes was now in order, and the Rector, on behalf of the boys of Mr. W. H. Smith's Bible Class, then presented that gentleman with a handsomely framed group portrait of themselves. Another ease of surprise, and Mr. Smith fittingly responded. On behalf of Mr. Richard Farmer, teacher of tho young ladies' Bible Class, the Rector presented Miss Minnie Gregory with a tastefully bound, illustrated copy of the works of Thomas Moore — a premium awarded to the young lady making the highest marks in the Class. At the beginning of the year the Rector had offered a prize to that scholar of the school who at the close of the year would best answer a number of Bil)le ques- tions covering the entire year's lessons. Among several who presented themselves for examination it was found when the results were compared that two ; viz., Jennie Rul)ins and Willie Bustard had made an equal average- A final test question was then given to both, and again both answered equally well. In consequence of this the Rector decided to give two prizes instead of one. Miss Rubins received an interesting volume profuselj^ illus- trated, " The World's Worship in Stone " ; to Master Bustard was given a handsomely bound copy of" Europe Illustrated." A beautiful silk banner, donated by Mr. S. G. Kil- patrick, is to be presented every year to the Class making the highest average attendance. Jubilee Christmas Festival. 167 : I This banner was handed to Miss Marion Holly's class of girls, their average attendance, 82 per cent., being the highest. It now hangs gracefully from the wall adjoining their class seats. The members of this Class are as follows ; Miss Nellie Quinsler, Miss Belle Nelson, a ii a Maggie Quinsler, Annie Quinsler, Margaret Mason, " Annie Nelson, Viola Weldon, Margaret Dalton. u il On behalf of the teachers of the School, the Rector presented the Sexton, Mr. Robert Cunningham, with a set of gold sleeve studs. The Rector having extended thanks to Sir Leonard and Lady Tilley, and to Mr. Lawrence for their attend- ance at the meeting, the School then sang " Grod Save the Queen," the benediction was pronounced, and the large audience slowly and reluctantly dispersed. The entire evening was a most happy one, long to be remembered in St. Luke's. At the celebration of our Sunday School Centennial in 1938, many of the children and young people present on this gladsome occasion, will, if spared, look back to it with the most happy recollection. I \ Ii I I Gifts fo fixe GurcK. The sacramental vessels used in the administration of the Holy Communion — two chalices and two patens of solid silver — were a gift to Grace Church, in 1838, of John W. Smith, who held office for five years as Vestryman and for three years as Warden. This Communion Service, the Church Bible and Prayer Books, and the three large mahogany (chancel) chairs, were snatched from the flames w^hich destroyed the Church and all its other contents. May 28, 1875. The old-fashioned reading desk in the Sunday School Room was the gift (January, 1876) of the Cor- poration of Trinity Church, St. John. It was placed in old Trinity in the year 1845, when the very large and old-fashioned desk of 1791 was placed in the ad- joining Sunday School House, and was destroyed with that building in the fire of 1877. This Trinity desk of 1845 was itself replaced, in the early part of Canon Brigstocke's rectorship, by one of still more modern style and of smaller size. The Church reading desk and pulpit, of chaste and elegant design, were presented to St. Luke's by Edward Sears, Esq., of St. John, in memory of Canon Harrison. The following note accompanied the gift : (168) Gifts to the Church. 169 "To the Rector, Wardens, and Vestry of St. Luke's Church, Portland : " Gentlemen — " The pulpit and reading desk lately placed in St. Luke's Church, Portland, I beg to present as a memorial to the Rev. William Harrison, many years Rector of the parish. *' Edward Sears. "St. John, March 17, ISSO." The following note of thanks was forwarded Mr. Sears in reply to the above : « Portland, March 29, 1880. "To Edward Sears, Esq., St. John : " Dear Sir — "At our Easter parish meeting, held this day, it was unan- imously resolved that a vote of thanks be extended to you for your thoughtful and beautiful gift to St. Luke's Church of a memorial reading desk and pulpit. " May God's Holy Word and the Church's Prayers ever be i^ad with the same fervent faith, and may the pure Gospel of our Saviour, Christ, ever be preached with the same gentle boldness, as characterized the ministrations of our late beloved pastor, the Rev. Canon Harrison, to whose memory you dedi- cate the gift. " For the Rector, Church Wardens, and Vestry, "Joseph Horncastle, , " Treasurer and Acting Vestry Clerk." The Holy Table, of solid black walnut, was the gift, July 1880, of Mr. Joseph Ruddock, for seventeen years a Vestryman of St. Luke's. The handsome clock (so arranged that it can be illuminated), is the gift of Mr. Richard C. Haws of Liverpool, England. 111 III li ill ii lii' I llli: mi' liifii 170 Gifts to the Church. The bell is the gift of Mr. Jeremiah Harrison, for twentj-four years a Vestryman of St. Luke's. On Easter Day, April 9, 1882, the congregation of St. Luke's were agreeably surprised at beholding a welcome gift to the Church of a font of Italian marble of exquisite design and finish. It was presented by Mr. and Mrs. James T. Kennedy, and bears the follow- ing inscription on the square central shaft : 3n iUemoriam Rev. Canon Harrison. Rev. W. Harrison Tilley. The bowl is twenty-four inches in diameter. Around the splay oi" the bowl are the following texts : ^^ \ \ 4^" ^t ^'^^^' mibxcti to ^^^^ ^-^ The pulpit frontal is the work and gift of Miss Etta Tapley ; that used for Christmas and Easter, the work and gift of Miss Nellie Tapley. The frontal for the reading desk, as also the hand- some book-marks, were presented by Miss Carrie Barnhill. The central "corona," or crown chandelier (Bray's patent, forty-four burners), with Venetian glass reflec- tor five and a half feet in diameter, as also the solid Gifts to the Church. 171 ash gallery door screen (to be filled eventually with stained glass), are the jubilee gift of the juvenile classes of the Sunday School. The central iron columns in the Sunday school room, and the new Brussels carpet on the platform are jubilee gifts from the main body of the School. A new stained glass window is soon to be placed in the chancel in memory of the three deceased pastors — the Rev. Gilbert L. "Wiggins, the Rev. Canon Harrison, and the Rev. W. Harrison Tilley. The estimated cost is $800. Of this amount, $300 is given by Mrs. Richard C. Hawes, of Liverpool, England (a daughter of Canon Harrison), $100 by Mr. Thomas Millidge, $50 by Sir Leonard Tilley, and the remaining $400 by the cor- poration of St. Luke's. The figure for the central light will be Thorwaldsen's Christ (original in Copenhagen). In the two side lights will be respectively representations of " The Visit of the Magi " and the " Last Supper." One of the side windows is soon to be filled with memorial glass, in memory of the late Thomas Ilil- yard (for seventeen years a Vestryman of St. Luke's), the gift of his widow and sons : subject, Plockhorst's "Easter Morning." Another side window, in memory of William Shives, the gift of Mrs. Shives and of Mr. William Shives Fisher : subject, " Christ and the Woman of Samaria at the Well." This work will be executed by Messrs. Castle & Son, Artists in English Conventional and Antique Memorial Stained Glass, Montreal, P. Q., ^nd Fort Covington, New York. The future promises to add many more of the acces- sories of devotion and very much in the way of beautify- ing our house of worship. We trust the time will come, i t 172 Gifts to the Church. and that not distant, when all of the remaining windows shall be filled with new and lovely glass, in memory of those who loved and worked for this Church. They loved these courts of the Lord, or the old sanctuary destroyed by fire, that formerly stood on this ground, and I can conceive of no more beautiful way of symbol- ically uniting their past life to the present life of this parish than in the manner I suggest and hope to see consummated. ' If it were our more general practice to give some memorial to the Church in the name of the loved ones who are taken from us, how much more real faith we should feel in the doctrine of the communion of saints, in that most comfortable doctrine that the dead in Christ are still with us in worship, in sacrament and prayer and praise ! And then the very Church edifice itself, as well as its divine ordinances, becomes what it ought to be : sacramental, symbolical. In the summer of 1885, Count R. Y. DeBury gen- erously presented to the Church corporation a piece of land at the rear of the Church lot, 40 x 100 feet. "When filled in and wharfed, this will furnish a much-needed and suitable place for the erection of horse sheds, stor- age ground for furnace wood, etc. It 'If ^H ;;i'}!i Bequests. During the present rectorship there have been three bequests : one of $200, from the late Robert Middle- more, for twenty-one years a Vestry Clerk of St. Luke's ; the second of $200, from the late James T. Kennedy, for seven years a Vestryman ; and the third of $600, from Mrs, Richard Scoles, who recentlv died at the advanced age of ninety-eight years. Let their exam[>le of though tfulness and gratitude stimulate others to vet greater liberalitv. "' As God hath prospered us" — that is the measure the Apostle lays down for us — a large measure to some, but a measure for each and all. As lie hath prospered us in health, as well as in wealth, in our family as well as in our business. Let us give Him a return for each profitable venture, or bargain, or investment, a tribute for every special mercy, a thank-offering for our child's recovery from sickness, for our safe return from travel by land or bv water, for everv kindlv demonstration of Providence. Let us remember our Church in our prayers, in our deeds of mercy and charity, and in the provisions of our last will and testament. Our Prayer Book rubric, in the office of " The Visitation of the Sick," reminds the clergy that " men should often be put in remembrance to take order for the settling of their temporal estates whilst they are in health." At the time of her death Mrs. Scoles was the oldest person in the Parish of St. Luke's, if not in the City and County of St. John. Her life was a long and eventful one, the early part of it being especially inter- esting, from the fact that she lived on the Island of St. Helena during the last four years of Xapoleon (173) I' m I 174 Bequests. ' 1 :) 1 L ; Bonaparte'n imprisonment there. Her knowledge of the history of the island was both extensive and accu- rate, and it was evidently a source of pleasure to her- self, as it was, doul)tles8, of instruction to her friends and neighbors, to describe this historic island, rising in solitary grandeur in the iSouth Atlantic ocean, ten miles long by six miles wide, 1,140 miles distant from the Continent of Africa, and 1,800 miles from South America, with its coastline of bare brown cliffs, ranging from 450 to 2,400 feet in height. It was discovered May 21, 1502, by Commodore John de Nova Castella, in command of a Portugese fleet on its return from India. The day of discovery being the anniversary of the birth of Helena, the mother of Constantine the Great, the island was called in her honour St. Helena. It was alternately in possession of the Portugese, the Dutch and the English. After the battle of Waterloo, it was determined to banish Xa|)oleon Bonaparte to St. Helena, as being the most secure place of confine- ment and the most impregnable to assault. Napoleon arrived at this distant mid-ocean prison on October 15, 1815, in the British warship " Northumberland," under the command of Rear Admiral Sir George Cockburn. Six months after this the British Government appointed Lieut.-Gen. Sir Hudson Lowe as custodian of Napoleon. Under his new custodian the captive became silent, unsociable, and introspective. Mrs. Scoles' first hus- band was Hugh Phillips, who belonged to Fermanagh, Ireland. He was employed as a shoemaker in the 66th Regiment, which left Chatham in 1817 for St. Helena. Her husband made fine boots and slippers for Napoleon, and she had frequent opportunities of seeing him. Her little cottage stood near the Longwood House, w^here Napoleon lived and died, and in w^hose high fenced garden, he was accustomed, when not busied \\'ith the Bequests. 175 gjirdeii utensils, to walk up and down the long paths, his hands behind his hack, an habitual frown upon Ids brow, apj)arently buried in deep thought — a short man with abnormally long body, and large, iinely shaped head. On May 5, 1821, he died of an illness unsuspected by others, and one which, as it became serious, was of }>rief duration — cancer of the stomach. Her recol- lection of the funeral was very vivid. The body lay in state and wa' visited by thousands. Four days after death. May 9th, the body was placed in a car drawn hy four horses. The whole distance to tlie grave, more than a mile, was lined with all the troops of the garrison. The little green valley, below Huts' gate, to which Napoleon often resorted, was selected, in accordance with his own ex[»ressed wish, for his temporary grave. A large weeping willow stood beside the grave, but this was, after a few ^-ears, nearly all carried away piecemeal by visitors in search of relics. Shortly after his death his effects were sold at auction. Mrs. Phillips purchased his coffee-cup and a few other small souvenirs ; and, althpugh the French ships that came to the island would offer fabulous prices for any relics of the dead hero, she kept and treasured this coffee-cup, and for more than sixty years was very proud of showing it to visitors. One Christmas day, a few years before her death, she presented it (a most agreeable surprise), encased in many and divers colored wrappings of tiisue paper, to the present Rector of St. Luke's. Her husband served in the St. Helena artillery for several years after Napoleon's death, then went to Ireland, where he eventually died of consump- tion. She again married, her second husband being Richard Scoles, who came to this country and settled in Portland over half a century ago, and who, for twenty- one years, was a Vestryman of St. Luke's. i :-%' tl St. ILuke's (Ifhurcli Siihba^^ School. FROM ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1888. Superintendent. Rev. L. G. Stevens. Assistant Superintendent. Mr. W. S. Fisher. Assistant Superintendent Juvenile Department. Mrs. John B. Eagles. Librarians. Messrs. William Day, Arthur Farmer, Frank JIamm, Harry N^ase, Frank Rowan, Herbert Harrison, Thomas Robertson. (176) Secretary-Treasurer. Mr. Samuel G. Kilpatrick. Choir Leader. Mr. Wni. H. Smith. Organist. Miss Mabel Smith. Sunday School. Teachers. Mr. Richard Fariuer. Miss Lizzie Rowan, AVm. H. Smith, Wm. S. Fisher, Arthur C. F. Sorell, Roht. B. Humphrey, Samuel G. Kilpatrick, " Fred. Irvine, 177 a a a a a a " Alex. M. Rowan, " Thos. Millidge, Mrs. John B. Eagles, John Johnson, Robt. B. Humphrey Miss C'arrie Barnhill, Mary Knight, Annie Dalton, Alice Farmer, Marion Hollv. a a a a u a u (.( Jennie Ruddock, Cassie Logan, Edith Ruddock, Annie Rowan, Maude Miles, Bertha Cheslev, Alice Ruddock, Jennie Pugsley, Carrie Holly, Annie Farmer, Jessie Hazlewood, Amelia Kilpatrick, Lottie Strang, Violet Strauii:, Kate MeJunkin, Kate Leonard. Membership. Officers, Teachers, Scholars, Male. 10 9 140 Female. 1 25 182 Total. 11 34 322 Contributions. 1" Quarter. 2nd Quarter. 3rd Quarter. 4th Quarter. Average per Sunday, -H56 |4.15 |2.97 $5.24 '^'otal, 1208.20 Largest Class Contribution, Xo. 9, (Mr. W. H ^n^tii)^ $20.20 Second Largest Class Contribution, >^o. 7, (Mr. Wm. S. Fisher), - - . . 115.47 The following Teachers and Scholars were present at 40 or more sessions of the School during the year : L 1!:I atjisutii/mi»^iiiiatSiVllx&i/' !: <( 178 Sunday School. Teachers. Mr. liichard Farmer, - Present 47 Sundays. Miss Mary Knight, Mr. Wm.'^S. Fisher, Miss Alice Farmer, Annie Dalton, Edith Ruddock, - Amelia Kilpatrick, - Jennie Ruddock, Cassie Logan, " Maude Mills, - - Mr. Fred. Irvine, - - - ' " Wni. H. Smith, - Scholars. Bessie Harrison, Jennie Jewett, John Hamilton, - - - Herman Campl)ell, Willie Bustard, - - - Nellie Quinsler, Annie Quinsler, Annie Xelson, Alice Cunningham, - Lena Rubins, - - - Maud Mowry, - Fred Hersey, - - - Julia Ramsey, - - . Fred. Evans, - Robt. J. ('Unningham, - Etta Shaw, - " - - Mimiie Campbell, Annie Kilpatrick, Charles Ramsey, n 46 a iC 45 a ii 45 li ii 44 a CI 44 u << 44 (( (( 4.3 a u 4.3 u (( 4.3 (( u 42 ii (( 40 ii (( 48 ii a 48 a (( 48 a u 47 a a 47 ii li 47 ii ii 47 a ii 47 a (( 47 a (( 47 a u 47 a <( 47 a ii 47 a ii 45 a ii 45 a (( 45 li a 45 11 a 45 11 ii ir. (( mmmmmmmmm ■■BR Sunday School. Arthur Dalton, Present 43 Sund Bert. Nichols, 43 Lizzie Cunningham, - 43 Bertie Dale, 42 Oeo. Ramsey, 42 Guy Johnston, - 41 " Alice Robinson, - 41 George Lawrence, - 40 179 The Sunday School, under the superintendence of the Rector, and with the valuable and valued assist- ance of the ever-ready and willing Assistant Superin- tendents, Mr. W. S. Fisher and Mrs. J. B. Eagles, the indefatigable Secretary-Treasurer, Mr. S. G. Kilpatrick, the efficient Choir Leader, Mr. W. H. Smith, and a good corps of devoted teachers and librarians, is in an exceptionally prosperous condition. The Rector takes pleasure in acknowledging this effective co-operation of a large band of helpers — " fellow-workers into the kingdom of God." Their services arc often rendered at considerable personal sacrifice 'of time, and comfort and convenience. For their free will offering their labor of love — may the Lord and Master abundantly reward them all ! ^M The Gurdi Choir. The following are the members of the Church Choir : Sopranos. Mrs. Wm. H. Smith, Mrs. Edw. R. Gregory, " John B. Eagles, " George Davis, Miss Helen Dale, Miss Carrie Barnhill, " Mary Smith, " Lizzie Cunningham, " Anne Farmer, " Bertha Chesley, " Maria MeJunkin, " Amelia Kilpatrick, Jennie Rubins, " Lena Rubins. a Altos. Mrs. Wm. S. Ruddock, Miss Bertha Knight, Miss Alice Knight, Master Walter IL Smith, Master Louis Bruce. Tenor. William H. Smith.* Bassos. Thomas Dale, Richard Farmer, jr., George Humphrey. Organist. Miss Bessie H. Farmer. Director. Rev. L. G. Stevens. * Mr. Smith has been connected with St. Luke's Church Choir from the early age of twelve — a period of forty years, for several yean* acting as Director — a term of Christian service of rare length, and filled with a universally appreciated enthusiasm and loyalty. (180) Church Choir. 181 nd STANDING SUGGESTIONS AND DIRECTIONS IN REFERENCE TO THE CHOIR. UNANIMOUSLY SANCTIONED AND ADOPTED AT A MEETING OF THE VESTRY OF ST. LUKE's CHURCH, PORTLAND, JUNE 15, 1888. By the ecclesiastical law of the Church of England (3 Phillmore, 90), the incumbent or officiating minister has the full control of the organ, the organist and the choir during the services ; he alone is to direct when the organ (if any) shall and shall not play ; he is to give orders concerning the tunes to be sung at any time in Church ; and to suppress all light and unseemly music, and all indecency and irreverence in the performance. We deem it fitting for the rector, being, in ecclesiastical law, the head of the choir, to be its director and leader, and to institute at any time needed reforms, and in any way, con- sistent with the rubrics of the Church and with established musical usages thereof, to remodel the musical service. We recognize the value of the musical portion of the service, and the need of beautifying the service by the advancement of musical ability. In I. Chron., chap. 25, it is stated that in connection with the service of the house of God there were "two hundred four score and eight (288) that were instructed in the songs of the Lord with cymbals, psalteries, and harps." We believe that the musical service of a Church of the size of St. Luke's (not much smaller than Solomon's Temple, which was 150 feet long and 105 wide) cannot properly be conducted by a choir of from six to ten voices — that a comparatively few number of voices cannot give sufficient volume nor any adequate musical interpretation to the Church of England — Episcopal — form of service. We trust that many in our parish, to the number of thirty or forty at least, who have naturally good voices, capable of I, !!l| >: I ,'i w * ■ » IBii 7 in 182 Church Choir. being trained, will cheerfully volunteer their services to the rector, that our choir, in point of numbers and efficiency may be adequate to the size of the building, and to the power and compass of the organ. We believe that as far as possible or practicable, the music of the Church should be largely congregational — the music of the whole body of the people. When this custom prevails the worshipper: have no opportunity to love the art for its own sake, to admire or to criticize the performance of the choir as a mere exhibition. To accomplish the best results, the melodies of the Church should be simple, to bespeak those feelings of devotion which are among the simplest of the human heart; its harmonies should be broad and grand, to embrace the whole soul and bear it strongly up ; its voluntaries fitted to the character of the occasion — emphatically suggestive of the Church season, and studiously in harmony with the spirit of the sermon. We believe that the "psalms and hymns and spiritual songs" (Eph. 5: 19) represent a true expression of the religious emotion of, a worshipping people, and that in the rendition of the service this emotion should be possessed, cultivated and reverentially shown by choir members, to whom the service should signify much (not little) in a religious sense. We suggest — 1. The sparing introduction of new tunes and chants. 2. A new hymn tune or chant to be repeated at short intervals until learned by the congregation. 3. A. congregational practice at the close of the regular week-day service. 4. A good working collection of plain chants in which the congregation might be able to join — the least valuable chants being dropped out fiom time to time as better ones should be found. 5. The chanting vigorous, prompt, and more like true recitative. Church Choir. 183 6. The anthem being largely a means of keeping up the weekly practices, we suggest that one new anthem (preferably short and easy) be introduced at the evening service, say once a month. 7. A sufficient number of voluntary substitutes, who would be able and willing to serve at short notice — an arrangement by which occasional fluctuations of attendance would be less seriously felt. 8. The choir-members being assistants to the minister in the leading of worship, and prominently placed, where absenteeism and tardy arrival are readily observed, we urge to punctual and sysf^-imatic atten- dance, and would especially deprecate the habit of taking a choir-seat after the service shall have com- menced ; recommending, rather, the late-comer to take a seat in the congregation. , 9. We feel that it is but reasonable that the congrega- tion should generously supply the organist and choir -members (by means of special offertory or otherwise) with all necessary and solicited music. Church music is devotion. The choir are not merely singers — they are worshippers. As we employ our lips in showing forth Jehovah's praise, let choir and congregation alike banish all noisy thoughts of self-glorification, all subtle whisperings of pride, all petty murmu rings of criticism. " That we show forth Thy praise, not only with our lips, but in our lives." It is well that people occasionally like restorations as a novelty. The past is thus linked to the present, and we derive, as for example, in architecture and sculpture, in customs and costumes, in social and intellectual life, the advantages which result from an appreciated con- tinuity of thought and action. 184 Olde Tyme Concerte. m. AVt'dnosday evening, April 23, 1884, an " Olde Tyme Costume Concerte " was given in "y® Big Roome under- neath y^ Churche." It was announced on the pro- gramme that " UNCLE WILLIAM HENRY SMITH will stand in full view of y* Singers, and will flourish y* Tirre-stick to ensure grate precision and to prevente discorde in y® partes. " COUSIN BESSIE H. FARMER will play y« Accom- paniments for y* Singers upon y* Loude Stringed Instrument, and will perform for y* Grand Assembling of y* Singers." One of the most interesting features of the pro- gramme was the singing of one of " Y® Olde Psalm Tunes " hv the followins:, who were members of the first choir of St. Luke's (see page 39) : Mrs. Simon Baizley, Miss Ann Cunard, " William Knight, William Knight, Robert Smith, Benjamin Knight. a On Thursday evening, August 19, 1886, St. Luke's Church was tilled to its utmost capacity, the occasion being the tirst public performance on the new organ. St. Luke's Choir was assisted by the Choir of Trinity Church, the former occupying the south and the latter the north side of the chancel. The whole musical per- formance was under the direction of Mr. E. G. Gubb, organist of Trinity Church, St. John. The chancel was adorned with potted flowers of every variety, and. presented a charming appearance. After an opening prayer, the Rector said that it was intended to hold several organ recitals every year, which would tend to elevate and enrich the musical taste of the public, and which would afl:brd an opportunitj' of hearing some of the best musical compositions of this and other ages. o > Z Organ Recital. 185 The orii^anist!* t<»r the ovtMiing wore Miss Be^fsie Farmer, Mr. J. Ilopley and Mr. E. G. Gubb; Cor- netist, Master Harrv Travis. The Doxolojjfv l>v i>er- formerrt and audience closed a recital hiti^hlv creditable to all taking part, and lett no doubt in the minds of the large gathering of the superior qualities of St. Luke's new organ. The printed programme contained the following report of examining experts : St. John, N. B., August 17, 1886. To the "Wardens and Vestry of St. Luke's Church, Portland. Gentlemen : Having been appointed by you to examine your new organ, we have carefully and thoroughly inspected both its interior and exterior, and have tested its quality. The voicing of the stops has been executed with artistic excellence. Its tone throughout is good, both as regards individual stops and full organ, and is powerful and brilliant without harshness. Especially are we pleased with the Open Diapasons, which possess the true " Cathedral Tone," being round and rich. The reeds are made from the same scales used by the cele- brated French builders — Cavaill^-Coll ; and their tones, especially that of the Oboe, are clear and prompt. Great care has evidently been taken in making the action to work with perfect silence ; and the touch, when coupled, is light and responsive. As disinterested examiners, we are highly pleased at the conscientious and workmanlike manner in which the instru- ment has been constructed and erected. We would call the special attention not only of musical students but of music committees to the model " Specification " of this organ. Edgar E. Gubb. Byron Tapley. 186 Specification of Organ. V M On the laf^t page of the programme was printetl the t'ollowiiig : SPECIFICATION OF ORGAN. (Builders : Messrs. Peter Connucher & Co., HuddersfielJ, Eng.) Two manuals, compass C C to A, Compass of pedals C C C to F, 58 notes. - 30 notes. GREAT ORGAN. Feet. Pipei. 1. Doubly Open Diapason (12 closed wood) metal, 16 58 2. Open Diapason, metal, - - - - 3. Small Open Diapason, metal, 4. Dulciana, metal, 5. Concert Flute, wood, - - - - 6. Principal, metal, 7. Harmonic Flute, metal, 8. Fifteenth, metal, 9. Trumpet, spotted metal, - - - SWELL ORGAN. 10. Bourdon, wood, 11. Open Diapason, metal, . - - 12. Stop Diapason, wood, . - - - 13. Salicional, spotted metal, - 14. Voix Celeste, spotted metal, - - - 15. Flauto Traverso, wood, 16. Harmonic Piccolo, nieial, . - - 17. Mixture (three ranks), T etal, 18. Cornopean, spotted jieLal, ... 19. Oboe, spotted metal, - . - - PEDAL ORGAN. 20. Double Open Diapason, wood, 21. Bourdon, wood, ... - . 8 58 8 58 - 8 58 8 58 - 4 58 4 58 . 2 58 8 58 - 16 58 8 58 - 8 58 8 58 - 8 46 4 58 - 4 58 • • • 174 - 8 58 • 8 58 - 16 30 16 30 Dedication of Organ. 187 COUPLERS. 22. Swell to Great. 23. Great to Pedals. 24. Swell to Pedals. Three composition Pedals to the Great Organ. Three composition Pedals to the Swell Organ. Balanced Swell Pedal. Tremulant in the Swell Organ worked by Pedal. The Keys, Draw Stops, and Pedals as per College of Organists. Total — 24 stops, 1,266 pipes. On the Sunday following, Au,ii:ust 22, 1886, at the niorninir service, the new orii:an was fonnally dedicated to the worship of God, special psalms and jtrayers of benediction ])einif used. In the course of his sermon, the Rector spoke of the a^ood results that would follow if a choral society or siuffiuii: school were started in the town. He recalled the fact that 288 trained singers were connected with the service of Solomon's Temple, and expressed the hope that St. Luke's Choir might be increased to the number of, sav forty, and that the congregation, under such leadersliip, might ])e led to the habit of more general congregational singing. But it is an error, he said, to suj^pose that choir leadership is confined to singing only — the choir are to repeat the 2)ra>iers and responses in a loud, distinct voice, and so assist the devotions of the congregation. He quoted the following remarks of an able writer on " the use of the chancel " : " When the old parson and clerk duet * gradually gave way to a more general interest, and the people about the * St. Luke's was the last church in Canada to retain this style of duet. John C. Waterbury, William Atley and Robert Middlemore acted successively as " clerks." 188 Organ Bcciinh. church began to respond aloud, it was thought better to give tone and direction to the responses by employing the aid of those who sang the hynnis. The choir, from the elevated position which they occupy in the chancel, are able to lead the prayers with more force and effect, and so the whole service, the reading as well as the chanting and singing, is offered with dignity and solemnity of sound which makes it a hearty and cheerful act of worship. Thus are our large chancels utilized, and are, in fact, necessary to give a suitable position to the choir ; and the wisdom of the builders of our ancient churches in England has reasserted itself after a long period of disuse. The choirs in England are generally com- posed of men and boys, and as the latter lose their voices they retire into the congregation and make room for younger ones, and so gradually there is diffused through the congregation a body of worshippers perfectly familiar, by long habit, with the psalms and hymns and responses ; and with their aid the services through the whole edifice become every year more hearty and congregational. Thus the worship of the church has assumed a volume of tone and heartiness, all through the country villages even, which is perfectly wonderful to those who can remember the duet services of former days." The second Organ Recital was given Thursday evening, September 30, 1886, by Professor W. H. Holt, Solo Organist at the " International Fisheries' Exhibition," London, and Examiner for Scholarships in the Royal College of Music ; at present Organist and Choir Master of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, New York City. Mr. Holt proved himself a perfect master of the instrument, and those who were fortu- nate enough to attend were given a rich musical treat. The third Recital was given Thursday evening, November 24, 1887, by Professor Thomas Morley, Organist of the Mission Church of St. John Baptist. Organ Recitals. 189 The fourth Recital, Friday evening, November 30, 1888. Mr. Morlev was asMt^ted bv the St. John Ora- torio Society (selections from " Creation " and the "Messiah") and by the Orpheus Male Quartette. It is needless to say that this talented organist, on both occasions, displayed a high class musicianly knowledge and admirable executive skill. As a form of musical speech, the Oratorio stands prominent. It is the nol)lest type of musical composi- tion, first, because it is founded on some great act of history or of sacred fame ; and further, l)ecause, being vocal, it reaches more strictly the hearts of men than the symphony. Since Handel's time the Oratorio in England has become a part of her life. There iire few communities so removed from the Metropolis, either l)y geographical boundaries or on account of the con- ditions of trade, few so poor that have not a circle of artisans or mechanics who meet to practice the great choruses of Handel, of Bach, or Mendelssohn ; an«l, as is often the case, join in some shire festival where the masses come together to sing with the great orchestra, and hear the famous singers in the inspired works of tlie art they cultivate. The most poi>ular days at the English Provincial Festival are those when the " Mes- siah " or the " Israel " are to be given, and this arises fro!u a universal respect and love for those works. At the great Handel Festival in London we lind a wonder- ful expression of a popular impulse in music. AV\' have unlike conditions to these in St. John, yet our Orattu'io S K'iety has l»een a pioneer and exemi>lar of our city's best development in honoring the art of music. Its annual Oratorios should read a larger circle. These Oratorios should oftener be heard in our Churches by large, well-behaved, devout, worsliipful audiences. The 190 Rectors arid Curates. cultivation of choral music is the true test of a city's musical position. A refined and elevated taste for sacred nmsic, especially in Oratorio form, powerfully influences a community's religious life. And therefore, it is that our Churches should, from time to time, solicit and welcome the presence of a well organized and well trained Oratorio Society. The Society should have the liberal and ungrudging support of every citizen, of every professed Christian who is far sighted enough to realize tliat the cultivation of the Oratorio is in itself ennobling, making the aspirations we exper- ience when listening to it deeply and harmoniously blend with our perhaps homely, but no longer harsi' and discordant, every-day thoughts and actions. And it is not too much to predict that in the neri iuilf century those who come after us will reap the fruit of the sowing of some who in heroic devotion, in toil and sacriiice, are now preparing for them larger, nobler, purer aims. Hectors. Gilbert Lester Wiggins, - - 18:33-1831) William Harrison^ - - - 183()-1875 Foster Hutchinson Almon, - 1875-1878 Lorenzo Gorham Stevens, - 1878- C URATES. William Harrison Tilley, - - 1867-1871 William Bellniore Armstrong, 1871-1875 Church Office! s. 191 CHURCH OFFICERS FROM 1836-1888. (While the date gives the year of first election, the years ot continuance do not always indicate romecHfive election.) First Elected. Easter. AVardens. a (( (( u u 1836. John C. Waterl)ury, 1836. Thomas Ruddock, 1837. James P. Payne, - . ' . 1838. John W. Smith, - 1840. Charles Simonds, 1841. Jacob Allan, ... 1841. William Lawton, 1848. James Britrjrs. 1849. James Flewelliuir. 1849. Samuel Leonard Tillev fVestrv Clerk), - . .' \ •: 1855. Francis L. Ruddock, 1858. Henry G. Simonds, . 1875. Robert A. Greyorv,* 1881. John Tapley,* ^ ... Vestrymen. 1836. Charles Simonds (W^irden, 1840), 16 rears 1836. Thomas McMackin, - - . ^ " ' 1836. AVllliam Lawton (Warden, 1841), 17 " 1836. John W. Smith (Warden, 1838),' 5 1836. James \\ Payne (Warden, 1837), 7 1836. Robert I'ayne, - . . '. j; 1836. Francis Si'nitli, - . . ^ 1836. FrancisL. Ruddock (Warden,1855) 18 Held Office. 2 years, 4' 1 3 1 7 20 1 8 f) 26 3 13 7 u u u ^ Still hold office. 192 Church Officers. 1836. AVilliam Olive, 1836. Samuel Dalton, - 1836. Xoble lluddock, - 1836. William Mills (Vestry Clerk), 1837. John G. Tobiii, 1837. George Smith, - 1837. Edward Vieth, 1837. Robert Boyle, - 1837. John F. Godard, - 1838. James Brings (Warden, 1848), 1838. John Haws," ... - 1"3' ^olin Richardson, 183. iias. J. Waterbury (Vestry Clerk), 8 1838. John W. Scott, -' - - - 1 1840. Thomas Ruddock (Av^arden, 1836), 21 1840. Michael Fisher, - - - - 14 1840. Richard Dalton, ... 1 1841. James Travis, - ... 1 1842. Robert AV. Crookshank, - - 5 1842. Dr. AVilliam S. Harding, - - 4 1843. James Flewelling (AVarden, 1849), 5 1846. Thomas Hilyard*^ - - - 17 1847. Richard Scoles, - - - 21 1847. David Tapley, - - - - 27 1847. AVilliam Revnolds, - - - 2 1847. Samuel Shanks, - - - 1 1840. Robert Sweet, - - - 25 1849. Israel Alerritt, . - . . 2 1849. Charles Doney, . - . 7 1849. Jacob Allan (Warden, 1841), - 2 1851. AVilliam Kilpatrick, - - 14 1851. Robert Middlemore (Vestry Clerk), 8 1852. Henry G.Simond8(AVarden,1858), 6 1855. Joseph Ruddock, - - - 17 6 vean 6 o 2 24 1 1 1 2 12 12 O Church Officers. 193 1855. Robt. A. Gregory (Wardeii,1875), 20 years. 1856. John C. Mcintosh, - 1856. Frederick W. Hatheway, 1857. Dr. Thomas W. Smith, 1857. John S. Jarvis, 1858. Jeremiah Harrison, 1859. Lewis Rivers, 1861. Richard Simonds, 1861. William Atley, 1863. Robert J. Leonard, 1867. Matthias Hamm, - 1867. John Morrison, - . . 1869. Henry Rowan, 1871. John E. Sayre, 1871. Joseph Horncastle, 1871. Philip Nase, 1871. John Tapley (Warden, 1881) - 1871. Richard Farmer, 1875. Henry Hilyard, ^ 1875. Capt. Charles Hatheway, - 1881. Shadraeh Holly, - 1881. James T. Kennedy, 1881. William P. Court, - 1881. Alexander Barnhill, - 1881. Archibald Tapley, - 1881. Joseph Ruddock, 1883. James Holly, .... 1884. Robert E. Coupe, 1884. Daniel F. Tapley, - 1885. David H. Nase, - 1887. William 8. Fisher (Vestry Clerk), 1888. Nathan W. Brenan, - - 9 (( 10 <( - 13 i( 1 (( - 24 (( 23 .( - 2 (( 8 u - 8 «( 23 (( - 4 (( 2 (( - 11 (( 15 u - 15 ii 11 n - 16 a 13 n . 6 n 7 (( - 7 (( 8 (( - 3 4( 1 u - 8 n 6 u - 4 (( 5 (( • 4 « , 2 (( 1 (( *0n account of the destruction of the Church by fire the Wardens and Vestry elected Easter Monday, 1875, held oflice till after completion of new Church edifice. IP ' 1 194 Church Officers. Vestry Clerks. William Mills (Vestryman), Charles I. Waterbury (Vestryman), Samuel Leonard Tilley (Warden), Robert Middlemore (Vestryman), - Samuel G. Kilpatrick, William Shives Fisher (Vestryman), Samuel G. Kilpatrick, Arthur C. F. Sorell, - J. Walter Holly, - 1836-1838 1838-1841 - 1841-1855 1 855-1 87(> - 1876-1879 1879-1880 - 1880-1881 1881-1887 1887-Easter, 1889 Delegates to Synod. Matthias TIamm. James T. Kennedy. Robert Middlemore, Robert A. Gregory, David Tapley, D"', M. Maefarlane, Richard Farmer, Wm. P. Dole, John Tapley, Jos. Horncastle, David Tapley, R. A. Gregory, Thos. Dale, O. 1). Wetmore, W. P. Dole, O. D. Wetmore, Thomas Dale, W. S. Fisher, Shadrach Holly, John Tajtley, Thomas Millidge. Substitutes. James T. Kennedy, Matthias Hamm, S. Holly, W. S. Fisher, Robert E. Coupe, S. G. Kilpatrick, W. B. Wallace. Organists. Henry Card, - John Leach, Miss Nettie Card, - Mrs. Charlotte Godard, Miss Bessie H. Farmer, Hugh Hammond, Joseph Coulter, James Wilson, - Robert Cunningham, Sextons. 1842-1846 1846-1870 1870-1873 1873-1879 1879- 1834-1810 1840-1846 1846-1875 1875- 8apfism$. The Baptisrm during the half century have been 2906. Each and all were signed with the sign of the cross, in token that they should not be ashamed to confess the faith of Christ crucified, and manfully to tight under His banner against sin, the world and the devil, and to continue Christ's faithful soldiers and servants unto their life's end. dronprmations. Nearly 700 have, in the presence of God and of the congregation, renewed, ratified, and confirmed the solemn promise and vow that was made at their Bap- tism. And with the laying on of the Bishop's hands, the prayer was said over each : " Defend, O Lord, this Thy servant' with Thy heavenly grace, that he may continue Thine ibrtver, and daily increase in Thy Holy Spirit more and more until he come unto Thy everlasting kingdom." And the hymn-prayer has often gone up from both hearts and lips of young, middle-aged and old : " Thine forever ! God of love, Hear us from Thy throne above ; Thine forever may we be Here and in eternity." (195) * M arna^ eg. I In the bonds of holy matrimony 1038 couples have been united. And over them, humbly kneeling, the prayer was offered that they might surely perform and keep the vow and covenant betwixt them made (where- of the ring given and received is a token and pledge) and might ever remain in perfect peace and love together; and the benediction of the ever blessed Trinity was invoked that they might so live together in this life that in the world to come they might have life everlasting. Burials. The order for the burial of the dead has been used on 1420 occasions, and as each still form with folded hands and closed eyes has gone down into earth's quiet resting place — earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust — the gathered group of mourners have listened, in how many cases with hope and comfort, to that prayer in which we beseech the heavenly Father that when we shall depart this life we may rest in the blessed Jesus, and that at the general resurrection at the last day we may be found acceptable in God's sight, and receive that blessing which His well beloved Son shall then pronounce to all who love and fear Ilim, saying, " Come ye blessed children of my Father, receive the kingdom prepared for you from tlie beginning of the world." (196) Conclusion, 197 Fifty years of changes and chances have come and gone since old St. Luke's was first opened for religious worship — chances and changes which should make all the gi eater and deeper our love for this new St. Luke's, with its constantly accumulating associations. When we look around and see how lovely our church home has been made, we will hardly grudge the time or money spent in its construction and repair. The pos- session of such a home should make us piously thankful. And let us freely cypress the hope that while all shall cherish during the coming years, as in the past, the blessed doctrines of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, though having different shades of opinion as to cere- monial and adornment of God's sanctuarv, all will still dwell together as brethren in unity, cherishing that broad and generous hearted charity which recognizes the diversity of tastes and feelings that God Himself has created in the minds of men. Let the services of St. Luke's be so reverent and the ritual so beautiful, and yet so simple, that they will satisfy those alike who realize in Church the especial presence of the Almighty, and feel that every outward action should express this faith, and also those to whom the external seems of small value in comparison with the internal and spiritual. A half century of church life, filled as it has been with thought and with work, with useful and varied experience — a half century which has borne record to the fidelity of those who have loved and worked for this Church ! Many — how many ! — of them have " fallen on sleep," and now softly rest, quiet in quiet graves ! How truly time is swift winged in its flight, and the 3'ears glide silently by like " the remembrance of 198 Conclusion. a dream when one awaketh." Those who have gone out from U8, scattered over the earth in other parishes and other lands, let us hold in prayerful remembrance. Those called to the services of the upper sanctuary, let us emulate in faith and works, beseeching God to give us " grace so to follow their good examples, that with them we may be partakers of His heavenly king- dom." And for ourselves and for those who are one day to worship in our place, let us pray that the same favouring Providence which attended the earlier and later history ot this Church may still watch over its welfare ; that God will provide men after His own heart to take up " the ministry of reconciliation " as it shall be, from time to time, laid down; that the trumpet of the watchman shall never give an uncertain sound, but that " the truth as it is in Jesus," " the simplicity that is in Christ," shall ever be taught and preached with steadfast adherence ; that the pas- toral care of this large and widely-scattered parish shall be conducted with zeal and activity, with vigour and fidelity ; that pastor and people may ever act together in loving co-operation, in mutual confidence and esteem in carrying on the work of the Lord; that God will take under His continual care the homes in which His people dwell ; that He will turn the heart of the fathers to the children and the heart of the children to the fathers ; that we may be glad when they say unto us, " Let us go into the House of the Lord " ; that all will " love the habitation of His House and the place where His honour dwelleth " ; and that throughout all coming generations this, our dear Church, may ever be " none other but the house of God, and the gate of heaven." ve gone parishes ibrance. nctuary, God to les, that ly king- are one he same lier and over its lis own ion " as that the ncertain ;," "the taught the pas- ish shall our and together i esteem jrod will lich His e fathers II to the unto us, t all will 3e where I coming e " none leaven." MEMBERS OF ST. LUKE'S CHURCH VESTRY, 1888, I'- R A. GREGORY. WAftrf s. J G. TOBIN R. FARMER. JOHN TAPLEYi WARDEN. M. HAMM. W. p. COURT. J WALTER HOLLY VESTIiy ClEt.K AND ThEAtuHER. JOS. HORNCASTLE JOS. RUDDOCK. jas. holly. D H. NASE. D. F. TAPLF.Y. W. S. FISHER. R. E. COUPE. N. W. ERENAN. I ^li St. luke's ChurcK. OFFICERS, 1889. Rector. Rev. L. G. Stevens, B. D. Wardens. Robert A. Gregory, John Tapley. Vestrymen. Joseph Ruddock, James Holly, David H. Nase, Matthias Hamni, Richard Farmer, Robert E. Coupe, William P. Court, John G. Tobin, Jo8e[>h Ilorncastle, Daniel F. Tapley, William 8. Fisher, Nathan W. Brenan, James S. Gregory, Vcstrt/ Clerk and Treasurer. Lay Delegates to Synod. Thomas Millidge, William S. Fisher. Substitutes. William II. Smith, Richard Farmer. Organist. Miss Bessie II. Farmer. Sexton. Robert Cunningham. Auditing Committee. Fred. Tapley, W. II. Smith, John M. Robertson. (199) ! 200 Church Suppai'tf Etc. This Church depends for its pecuniary support : (1) Upon the rental of pews, which may be had at prices adapted to the ability of all who desire to attend. They may be secured on application to the Vestry Clerk. (By Act of Incorporation there are 250 free sittings — to be found in the gallery, as also both in the back and front of the body of the Church.) (2) The Services are sustained as far as possible by the "free will offerings" of the Congregation. As the offertory is, in a certain sense, a part of the worship of the Church " ' 's desirable that contri- butions thereto should L >s regular and systematic as possible. It is earnestly desired that every member of the congregation should feel an interest in all that concerns the parish, and give a hearty personal co-operation in promoting its prosperity and extending its influence for good. The sick are to be visited, the needy relieved, the Sunday School work sustained, and contributions made both for our own Church and parish as well as for the " regions beyond." All may add much to the interest and effect of our services by their systematic and pundnal attendance and by their uniting iwomptbj and aaiUbbj in the singing and responses. Strangers and visitors will always be provided with a free seat, and a courteous, cordial welcome is extended to those who may come at any time. The Rector may be consulted with reference to any matter of religious or parochial interest bet>>re or after any service at church, or at his house by appointme t. Early notice of those who " are in troulde, sorrow, need, sickness, or any other adversity," is affectionately solicited, especially from relatives^ and independently of sometimes tardy street gossip. In such cases the Rector is always accessible, and he hopes that all will feel free to cull upon him. >port : id at prices ) to attend, the Vestry re are 250 ly, as also ody of the ble by the ation. As )art of the ;hat contri- systematic jr of the : concerns oration in luence for ' relieved, tributions as well as set of our lance and e singing ided with extended "/Tri '«ri)e Corb our (Bob be niiti) us, as fje was uiitl) our fatl)cr0: let ir)ini not lea»c us, nor forsake us." r "(D pran for tl)e ptate of Jerusalem; tl)en sl)all prosper tl)at looe tl)ee. Jpeace be iuitl)iu tl)n lualls, an^ pleuteousness m\t\)\\\ tl)n palaces I for nni brctljren an^ companions' sakes, 3 will uiisl) tl)ee prosperitn! ilea, because of tl)e l)ouse of tl)e £orb our a3ob, If mill seek to bo tl)ee goob." ice to any 'e or after ointme t. e, sorrow, ctionately pendently cases the at all will