Annual Cyclopedia of the Church

OCTOBER 1, 1918, TO SEPTEMBER 30, 1919.

AMERICAN CHURCH BUILDING FUND COMMISSION

The American Church Building Fund Commission is in the thirty-ninth year of its work. Since January 1, 1919, it has made gifts amounting to $17,696, grants $2,100, and laons $62,700 to forty-nine parishes and missions. In addition to this, it has promised gifts amounting to $11,450, grants $3,850, and loans $62,000, to forty-four parishes and missions-a total of $159,796 to ninety-three parishes and missions for nine months of its fiscal year. Gifts and grants have already called for the use of the entire annual income, and the Church will have increased its use of loans from the Permanent Fund by $120,000. If the average is maintained for the balance of the year a waiting list must be created for gifts and grants, and only $100,000 of the Permanent Fund will remain available for the use of the Church at large in loans.

The total of this Permanent Fund on September 18, 1919, is $664,139.27. From it loans are made at five per cent. on first mortgage security under several forms of repayment, and the income of the fund is given away in grants, which are loans on first mortgage security but without interest, and unrestricted gifts. These forms of assistance cover only actual building operations whether for churches, rectories, or parish house, and are not available for other purposes than for building or the acquisition of property.

BEATTY, TROY, D.D.,

Bishop Coadjutor of Tennessee, was born in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Nov. 12, 1866. He was ordained deacon in 1891 by Bishop Gregg,. of Texas, acting for the Bishop of Tennessee, and was advanced to the priesthood in 1892 by Bishop Quintard. His priestly work was successively at Trinity Church, Mason, Tenn., St. Andrew's, Darien, Ga., Emmanuel Church, Athens, Ga., and Grace Church, Memphis, Tenn. At the time of his election to the episcopate he was Dean of the Memphis convocation and a member of the standing committee of the diocese. He has served several times in General Convention. His degree was received from the University of Georgia. Dr. Beatty was elected Bishop Coadjutor of Tennessee on May 8, 1919, and was consecrated on Sept. 18, 1919, at his parish church in Memphis.

BROTHERHOOD OF ST. ANDREW

Thirty-six years have now been rounded out in the history of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew. As this history is studied it divides itself naturally into three periods. The first was a period of foundation laying—a period during which public opinion in the Church was influenced and made more sympathetic toward personal evangelism, the cornerstone of the Brotherhood structure.

The second was the war period. After many years of up-hill struggle against obstacles both within and without the Church, the Brotherhood in its war work struck a popular note that evoked a general response from clergymen and laymen alike. Indeed the success of this work was so outstanding that it has commended the Brotherhood to the whole Church and has opened many doors of opportunity that were hitherto closed. Moreover in the extent and scope of its work among the soldiers and sailors, the Brotherhood departed considerably from a somewhat conservative policy followed in the past, and by attempting greater tasks has learned new lessons in how to adventure for God. Never can the Brotherhood again be content with the restricted programmes of former years.

The third and present period therefore finds the Brotherhood, both as to its leadership and membership, with a larger vision, committed to an Advance Programme, and facing squarely in the direction of a larger usefulness in the Church.

Naturally with so many thousands of our best young Churchmen in military service, it has not been a propitious year for the formation or development of parish chapters. During and since the war the Brotherhood has functioned nationally to a much larger degree than it has parochially. Nevertheless, considering everything, the year's record up to the present time is a worthy one and the statistics are given below.

Probationary Chapters Now at Work

Senior 46 Junior 23 Total 69

Special Opportunities October 1st for New Chapters in 481 Parishes.

The Junior Department

An increasing amount of attention and study has this past year been given to the Junior Department, and an increasing amount of money has been used in its development. Mr. Gordon M. Reese, one of the field secretaries has devoted his entire time to study and experimentation in connection with the training of older boys for leadership and service in parish work. He has worked out a syllabus for training boys which in many respects is similar to that we have so successfully used in training men. This paves the way for a splendid Junior advance which should make much progress this coming year, and which will be vigorously pressed until the Junior Brotherhood becomes a great outstanding boys' organization throughout the Church.

The Advance Programme

The Advance Programme adopted by the Brotherhood at last year's Convention is an ambitious undertaking. It is a task of tremendous proportions. The achievement of its objectives would go far toward solving many of the Church's greatest and most difficult problems. The seven objectives of the Advance Programme are:

To create in every Parish a Service Group of Men and Boys who will be of Genuine Value to the Rector.

To make Personal Prayer and Service a living factor in every Parish; To make practical the Threefold Endeavor in every Parish; Increasing Church Attendance, Men's Bible Classes, Men's Corporate Communions;

To promote the Devotional Life of the Family through the Practice of Family Prayer;

To bring fathers, older brothers, and kinsmen of enlisted men into Practical and Inspiring Relationship to Christian Service;

To show young men with Increasing Clearness the Vision of the Sacred Ministry as serving as Officers in Christ's Army;

To strengthen the Brotherhood's Junior Department by training and actively enlisting Boys of every Parish in Christ's Army;

Naturally a good deal of time was consumed in assembling the staff of eight field secretaries authorized by the Advance Programme, and in training them for their difficult work. Nevertheless, a very considerable progress has already been made in working out the various parts of the Programme, and a much greater progress may be expected the coming year.

The Central Feature

The central feature of the Advance Programme is the training of men and boys for Christian Service. The Brotherhood has set itself no less a task than to go through the whole Church, diocese by diocese, carefully training groups of selected men and older boys in parish work. Just before the beginning of summer the secretaries in the field had more than 800 such

CHURCH PENSION FUND, THE

The assessments, which are the basis for the continued existence of the Church Pension Fund, are being paid by the parishes and other ecclesiastical bodies at the rate of about $625,000 a year. October 1, 1919, the pension roll of the Fund stood:

Even after the signing of the armistice, the work of the Church Periodical Club for the chaplains continued with little decrease for some months, and at the present time there is a steady demand for a variety of material from the regular chaplains in the Army and Navy and from a few civilian chaplains. Owing to the appropriation from the War Commission it is possible to respond quite fully to these calls, and the experience of the past two years has demonstrated the importance of a permanent provision for such needs.

Without neglecting other calls, the special effort of 1918-19 has been to provide schoolbooks for Liberia. Gifts have been made of both money and books, and it has been possible to ship many hundreds of volumes, ranging from a primer to a Hebrew grammar. Much yet remains to be done, especially in the way of helpful books for the clergy and those who are preparing for holy orders.

The Church Periodical Club is making its special contribution to the Nation-wide Campaign by furnishing publicity material in the way of stories and experiences. On account of the personal character of its work, it comes rather closely in touch with many phases of life in the Church, and is therefore able to give this help to a peculiar degree.

The regular forwarding of current magazines was seriously affected by the war, and there are still long waiting lists for many good magazines. Ii! those who have will give, there need be no shortage.

DULUTH

The convention opened June 3rd with a short service and business meeting, after which delegates and Church people adjuorned to Trinity Hall, where a reception was held in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the marriage of Bishop and Mrs. Morrison. During the evening Mr. James A. Brown, of Fergus Falls, speaking in behalf of guilds, auxiliaries, and individuals from all the parishes and missions, offered the Bishop and his bride of fifty years their congratulations and good wishes, and as a token of love presented them with a bag containing gold pieces amounting to more than $1,000.

FUNSTEN, RT. REV. JAMES BOWEN, D.D.

The death on December 1, 1918, of the Rt. Rev. James Bowen Funsten, D.D., Bishop of Idaho, was a shock to many, coming, as it did, at his home

in Boise with little warning. He had preached a sermon in apparently his usual health on Thanksgiving Day.

Bishop Funsten was a son of the Old Dominion, born in Clark County, Virginia, in 1856, his parents Colonel Oliver Ridgway Funsten and Mary (Bowen) Funsten. His education was received at the Virginia Military Institute, from which he was graduated in 1875, and at the University of Virginia, from which he received in 1878 the bachelor's degree of law. After a course at the Virginia Theological Seminary he was ordered deacon by Bishop Whittle in 1882 and the following year advanced to the priesthood by Bishop Peterkin. He was missionary at Bristol, Tennessee, and rector at Christ Church, Marion, Virginia, in the years following his ordination. In 1884 after a trip abroad he became rector of Christ Church, Richmond. He married Ida Vivian Pratt in 1886. Leaving Christ Church in 1890 he was for two years general missionary of the diocese, thereafter becoming rector of Trinity Church, Portsmouth, where he remained until 1899. In that year he was chosen Bishop of the new missionary see of Boise and he was consecrated by Bishops Whittle, Whitaker, Penick, Peterkin, Randolph, Paret, Talbot, Cheshire, and Gibson. From 1907 his title was Bishop of Idaho.

GENERAL BOARD OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

The work of the General Board of Religious Education during the year 1919 is briefly described in the following statements:

(1) It has produced the Christian Nurture Series of instruction for the Church Sunday schools. These are used by 135 000 pupils and teachers. They help the rector to form a programme of education for his parish, in harmony with the programme of other parishes. They help the teacher with innumerable suggestions and illustrations. They enable every interested parent to cooperate with the Church in the religious training of children.

(2) It has demonstrated that the Church can coöperate with the public schools and win the commendation of public school superintendents. For four years Miss Vera L. Noyes has taught a day school of religious instruction for public school children in Christ Church, Gary, Indiana. Two other schools are now being organized at S. Mark's, Toledo, Ohio, and S. Paul's, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

(3) It has assisted the missionary work among the Indians by preparing special lessons for religious nurture of primitive peoples, which are being translated into the Niobrara language for use in South Dakota.

(4) It has won the Church's attention to recruiting the ministry. Under its direction, methods of reaching high school boys and presenting the call of the ministry are in operation in many dioceses.

(5) It has, at the request of the General Convention, and with the cooperation of a Joint Commission, formulated a revision of the Canons on Ordination, setting before the Church a new plan for the training of the candidates for the ministry more in keeping with present-day requirements.

(6) It has, as directed by the General Convention, made an inquiry into the educational training of all men ordained in the Triennium 1916-1919, concerning their age, residence, early training within or without the Church, and their attainments in college and theological seminary.

(7) It has made an analysis of the condition of clerical vacancies and salaries in three provinces, on a fixed date, revealing that as long as parishes