from the active ministry in 1910. He was a delegate to the General Conventions of 1883, 1886 and 1889. Dr. Vibbert was the author of A Guide to the Reading of the Hebrew Text (1867); Plain Catechism on Confirmation and Plain Catechism on Church Principles. He was buried in St. Luke's Churchyard, Germantown. REV. ROBERT LOWRY, a retired clergyman of this diocese, died in St. Luke's Hospital, New York, on September 16, 1918, aged 82 years. A graduate of the General Theological Seminary, he was ordered Deacon in Trinity Church, New York City, by Bishop Wainwright on July 3, 1853, and become rector of the Church of the Messiah, Greenbush, N. Y., where he served until 1860, when he was elected rector of St. Mary's, Mott Haven Later he was appointed chaplain at David's Island and in 1868 removed to the diocese of California and later to the Diocese of New Jersey. He was again received into the diocese of New York on January 10, 1874, being vicar of St. Thomas' Free Chapel where he served for about fourteen years. REV. JOHN ADDAMS LINN, Master in Trinity School, New York, died in France on October 8, 1918. He graduated from the Western Theological Seminary in 1897 and was ordained Deacon and Priest the same year by Bishop Seymour. He served in Trinity Church, Petersburg, Ill., 1897-98; St. Mary the Virgin, New York, 1898-1902; St. Paul's, Mishawaka, Ind., 1902-8; and as Master in Howe School, Ind. REV. THOMAS DAVIES, rector of Christ Church, Marlborough, died on December 23, 1918, at Charleston, S. C. He was ordered Deacon in 1899 and ordained Priest two years later in the diocese of Nova Scotia by Bishop Courtney. In 1908 he was appointed an instructor in the General Theological Seminary, and three wears later became rector of St. John the Divine, Hasbrouck Heights, N. J. On April 7, 1916, he was received into the diocese of New York and became rector of Christ Church, Marlborough, where he remained until his death. Interment was in Nova Scotia. THE RIGHT REVEREND FREDERICK COURTNEY, D.D. (King's College); S.T.D. (Racine); D.C.L. (Trinity), former Bishop of Nova Scotia and rector emeritus of St. James' Church, New York City, died on December 29, 1918. Born at Plymouth, England, January 5, 1837, he graduated from King's College, London, in 1863, and was ordered Deacon in 1864 and priested the following year by the Archbishop of Canterbury. His English parishes were: Curate, Hadlow, County of Kent, 1864-65; Incumbent, St. Charles' Chapel, Plymouth, 1865-70; Incumbent, St. Judes, Glasgow, 1870-76. In the latter year he came to the United States and became Assistant at St. Thomas', New York City, where he served four years. In 1880 he was elected rector of St. James', Chicago, and two years later of St. Paul's, Boston, where he remained till 1888. In that year he became Bishop of Nova Scotia, being consecrated on April 25, by Bishops Medley, Williams, Neely and Kingdon. In 1904 he resigned his episcopal jurisdiction and became rector of St. James' Church, New York City, where he served until retirement from active ministry. Respectfully submitted, E. CLOWES CHORLEY, Historiographer. APPENDIX D REPORT Of the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine THE RT. REV. Bishop of New York THE RT. REV. CHAS. S. BURCH, D.D., THE VERY REV. HOWARD C. ROBBINS, D.D., Dean THE REV. ROBERT ELLIS JONES, D.D., Bursar The Dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine would report that during the year, from January 1, 1918, to December 31, 1918, there have been held in the Cathedral nine hundred and fifty-nine (959) services, including four hundred and twelve (412) Celebrations of the Holy Communion, two hundred and forty-nine (249) Sunday services, seventy-five (75) Holy Day services, four hundred and seventy-three (473) services on other days, forty-five (45) confirmations, thirty-six (36) baptisms, fifty-eight (58) marriages, twenty-one (21) burials, twenty-seven (27) children's services, three (3) services for the congregation of St. Jude's Chapel (colored), and forty-nine (49) special services as follows: Opening Service of Provincial Synod; Corporate Communion of Prayer and Service Union of Woman's Auxiliary; Eucharist for Serbians; Special Service for Soldiers and Sailors; Service for Patriotic Societies; Service for Archbishop of York; Service in behalf of Church War Work for Girls; Three Services for Congregation of St. Jude's Chapel; Service to Commemorate the First Anniversary of the Entrance of the United States into the War; Opening Service of Meeting of the House of Bishops; Corporate Communion of Mission Study Class Leaders; Service for Presentation of Sunday School Lenten Offerings; Service for Actors' Church Alliance; Corporate Communion of Parochial Treasurers of United Offering; Service for Italian Congregation of Grace Chapel; Service for Italian Congregation of Chapel of the Incarnation; Opening Service of 135th Diocesan Convention; St. Faith's Commencement Service; Two Combined Confirmation Services; Service on Day of Humiliation and Prayer appointed by the President; Memorial Service for Southern Slavs and Oppressed Nations on Kossovo Day; Service on Bastile Day; Service on Fourth Anniversary of Great Britain's Declaration of War; Service on Heroes' Day; Retreat for Deaconesses; Service in the Interest of the General War Time Commission of the Churches; Service to Welcome the Metropolitan of Athens; Corporate Communion of Junior Auxiliary Officers; Service of Thanksgiving for the Withdrawal of Austria-Hungary from the War; Service of Thanksgiving for Victory on Sunday after Armistice; Service of Thanksgiving of the Diocese of New York for the Victory of Righteousness and Peace; Service of Thanksgiving of the Liberated Nationalities of Middle Europe; Service on Thanksgiving Day for the Victory of the United States and Allied Nations; Three Missionary Services; Gounod's "Mors et Vita"; Corporate Communion for Messengers of the Advent Call; Dedication of Dean's Stall; Service for Britain's Day; Memorial Service on 2nd Anniversary of Dean Grosvenor's Death; Advent Ordinations; Corporate Communion of the Diocesan Auxiliary to the Cathedral; Christmas Carol Service; Watch Night Service on New Year's Eve. (Notes.-The following ministrations, not being recorded on any Parish Register, should be included in the Tables of Parochial Statistics :Baptisms, 49; Marriages, 44; Burials, 18; Confirmations, 28.) Regular services at the Cathedral are held as follows:-First Sunday in the month, 8 A. M., Holy Communion; 10 A. M., Morning Prayer; 11 A. M., Holy Communion and Sermon; 4 P. M., Evening Prayer and Sermon; Second, Fourth and Fifth Sundays, 8 A. M., Holy Communion; 10 A. M., Holy Communion; 11 A. M., Morning Prayer and Sermon; 4 P. M., Evening Prayer and Sermon. Third Sunday, 8 A. M., Holy Communion; 10 A. M., Morning Prayer; 11 A. M., Litany and Holy Communion; 4 P. M., Evening Prayer and Sermon. Week-day Services, 7.30 A. M., Holy Communion daily; 5 P. M., Evening Prayer; Choral on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday; on Monday and Saturday the service is read in one of the chapels. On Christmas, St. John the Evangelist, Epiphany and Ascension Days there is a second celebration (choral) at 11 A. M. On Ash Wednesday, in addition to the regular daily services there is Morning Prayer at 10 A. M.; Litany, Penitential Office and Sermon at 11 A. M.; Good Friday, Morning Prayer, Ante-Communion and Sermon at 11 A. M.; Thanksgiving Day, Morning Prayer and Sermon at 11 A. M. THE CHOIR SCHOOL has continued its successful work as a boarding school of the highest standard for boys, with a competent staff of teachers, and a large, well-equipped building, and with an adequate endowment for its maintenance, and now ranks among the important institutions of the Diocese. While its primary purpose is to furnish boys to sing in the choir of the Cathedral, it accomplishes much more than that, for it is preparing forty boys educationally, morally and spiritually, as well as musically, for their life work. There are more applications for membership in the school than can be granted, so that it is possible to choose boys, not only for their voices, but on the basis of their character and general educational possibilities. These boys come from all parts of the United States. THE DIOCESAN AUXILIARY TO THE CATHEDRAL (Mrs. Henry W. Munroe, President) is composed of two hundred and fifty (250) delegates from one hundred and twenty-eight (128) parishes, representing nearly one thousand (1,000) Contributing Members. Its special work is performed by the following committees: 1. Altar Committee, which supplies linen, hangings, flowers, etc., for the Altars of the Cathedral, the care of which is entrusted to the Deaconesses of St. Faith's House. 2. Committee on Cathedral Boxes, to secure contributions in the various parishes and at the Cathedral. 3. Choir Committee, which provides equipment and furnishings for the Choir School and supervision of its housekeeping, and also supplies and cares for the choir vestments. 4. Committee on Delegates, to increase the number of parishes represented in the Auxiliary. 5. Committee on Mission Work, which supports the Italian Mission, at 236 East 111th Street, with its nine clubs and classes, under the charge of an Italian Priest and Deaconess, and the Colored Mission, at 132 West 131st Street, with its Home for colored women, and St. John's Club House for Boys, at 39 West 131st Street. THE CATHEDRAL LEAGUE (John S. Rogers, Esq., President) secures funds by subscriptions among its members for the erection and endowment of the Cathedral. It has over six hundred (600) members, who have subscribed one hundred dollars ($100) each, payable in not more than ten equal annual instalments. Its present efforts are directed particularly towards increasing the Building Fund for the Nave. THE FRESH AIR ASSOCIATION OF THE CATHEDRAL OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE is an independent corporation and entirely dependent upon voluntary contributions. It owns a spacious fresh air home and thirty acres of land at Tomkins Cove, on the west bank of the Hudson River. The house, which is called the House of St. John the Divine, was opened as usual in the middle of last June. Its schedule for the season of 1918 provided, as usual, for about two weeks' shelter of nearly five hundred (500) beneficiaries in six parties, each consisting of fifteen women, mostly mothers with their babies, and about sixty-five children, mostly between six and sixteen years of age, in addition to a Labor Day party. Most of the beneficiaries were selected from the following churches: The Holy Apostles', St. Cornelius', St. John the Evangelist, All Saints', St. Ambrose Italian Mission, and the Music School Settlement; and a Boys' Camp was maintained as usual during the season for eighteen boys. The Superintendent of the House of St. John the Divine is a trained nurse, and during the winter she is on duty as the Bishop Potter Memorial Nurse visiting the members of her summer household at their homes in the city, and ministering to the sick. A chapel stands on the fresh air grounds near the House of St. John the Divine and also near the Vaughan Teachers' Rest, and its services are attended by congregations from both these gracious shelters. |