he joined the Episcopal Church. He was ordered Deacon in the Cathedral by Bishop Greer, May 18, 1913, and advanced to the Priesthood by the same bishop, June 7, 1914. During his brief ministry, Mr. Gunthorpe founded the colored Missions of St. Augustine's, Yonkers (1909), and St. Simon's, New Rochelle (1913). He was buried at Beechwood Cemetery, New Rochelle.

THE REV. JAMES NEVETT STEELE, MUS. Doc. (University of the South, 1887) died in New York City on Wednesday, August 23, 1916, in his sixtyseventh year. The son of I. Nevett and Rosa Nelson Steele, he was born at Caracas, Venezuela, during his father's service as United States Consul in that country. After graduating from the University of Virginia, he studied law and was admitted to the Bar of Maryland before he entered the ministry. Graduating from the General Theological Seminary in 1882, he was ordered Deacon that year by Bishop Horatio Potter, and advanced to the Priesthood the following year by Bishop Seymour. After serving as Assistant in Calvary Church, New York City, 1882-83, he became, in the latter year, Rector of Zion Church, Wappingers Falls, Dutchess County, where he remained until 1890, when he was appointed Vicar of Trinity Church, New York City, where he served for seventeen years. Dr. Steele was a trustee of the General Theological Seminary and President of the Alumni Association at the time of his death. He was also President of the Maryland Society and Chaplain of the Daughters of the American Revolution. He was the author of Hymns and Carols, and The Importance of Musical Knowledge to the Clergy, and composed many hymn tunes and anthems. He was buried at East Hampton, Long Island.

THE REV. WILLIAM JONES SEABURY, M.A. (Columbia, 1859), D.D. (Hobart, 1874; G.T.S., 1885), died at East Hampton, Long Island, August 30, 1916. Dr. Seabury was born in the City of New York, January 25, 1837, and was the son of the Rev. Dr. Samuel Seabury and great-grandson of Bishop Seabury. After graduating from Columbia College in 1856 he was admitted to the Bar, and then decided to enter the ministry. He graduated from the General Theological Seminary in 1866, and was ordained Deacon and Priest that year by Bishop Horatio Potter. He became assistant to his father in the now defunct church of the Annunciation and succeeded to the rectorship in 1868 and remained until the dissolution of the parish in 1898. To this parochial duty he added first an instructorship and then a professorship in Ecclesiastical Law and Polity at the General Theological Seminary, where he taught for forty-five years. Dr. Seabury was secretary of the Protestant Episcopal Society for the Promotion of Religion and Learning in the State of New York; the New York Protestant Episcopal Public School, and also of the Corporation for the relief of Widows and Children of Clergymen of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of New York. He was the author of Lectures on the Apostolical Succession; An Introduction to the Study of Ecclesiastical Polity, Notes on the Constitution of 1901 and Memorials of Bishop Seabury. He was buried in Trinity Cemetery.

THE REV. GEORGE BAILEY HOPSON, M.A. (Trinity, 1869); D.D. (St. Stephen's, 1886); D.C.L. (St. Stephen's, 1903); died at Annandale, Dutchess County, on Wednesday, August 30, 1916. He was born at Naugatuck, Conn., in 1836, and graduated from Trinity College, Hartford, in 1857. Six years later he graduated from the General Theological Seminary and was made Deacon and Priest by Bishop Horatio Potter in 1863 and 1864, respectively. The whole of his life was devoted to teaching the Latin language at St. Stephen's College, with which he was connected for fifty years, serving several times as Warden, pro tempore. He was the author of Fasting Communion (1886); Beneficiary Education (1889) and Reminiscences of St. Stephen's College (1910).

THE REV. ALFRED J. DERBYSHIRE, rector of Grace Church, West Farms, died September 2, 1916. After graduating from the General Theological Seminary Mr. Derbyshire was ordered Deacon in 1885 by Bishop Starkey of Newark and advanced to the Priesthood the following year by Bishop Henry C. Potter. The whole of his ministry was spent in Grace parish, and to his parochial work he added the chaplaincy of the Home for Incurables.

THE REV. DAVID ARCHIBALD BONNAR, M.A. (Hobart, 1871), died in St. Luke's Hospital, New York City, on November 13, 1916. He graduated from Hobart College in 1864, and was ordered Deacon in 1868 and Priest two years later by Bishop Coxe of Western New York. His parochial charges were as follows: 1869-71, St. Matthew's, East Aurora, N. Y.; 1871-74, St. Mark's, Newark, N. Y.; 1874-78, St. Clement's, Rochester, N. Y.; 1878-79, Assistant, All Hallows Parish, Maryland; 1879-81, Church of the Redeemer, Cairo, Ill.; 1881-86, All Hallows Parish, Maryland; 1886-89, St. Paul's, Aramingo, Penn.; 1890-92, St. John's, Dolgeville, N. Y.; St. John the Evangelist, Toledo, Ohio; 1893-95, St. John's, Dolgeville, N. Y.; 1895-98, St. Stephen's, Middlebury, Vt. In 1900 he became chaplain of St. Michael's Home, Mamaroneck, where he continued until his death.

Historical Note

FIRST ORDINATION IN THE DIOCESE

The first ordination in the Diocese of New York is mentioned in the New York Packet of November 10, 1785, in these terms:

"On Thursday last the 3rd inst., Mr. John Lowe, a gentleman from Virginia, received Holy Orders from the hands of the Rt. Rev. Samuel Seabury, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church at Hempstead (St. George's, Hempstead), on Long Island. As this was the first instance of an ordination of the Church which had ever taken place in this State, the solemnity of the occasion was almost beyond description—the excellent sermon delivered by the Bishop, the prayers and tears of himself, his Presbyters, and the numerous assembly, for the success of the gentleman in his ministry will long be had in remembrance by every spectator."

Although New York had at that time no bishop, there was a diocesan organization, and the action of Bishop Seabury in officiating in the diocese

without a formal invitation was deeply resented by some of the New York clergy, notably by Samuel Provoost, rector of Trinity Church. He addressed a caustic letter to the Rev. Dr. William White, of Philadelphia, under date of November 7, 1785, in the course of which he says:

"On Long Island, Dr. Cebra (Seabury) appeared more openly, preached at Hempstead Church and ordained the person from Virginia I formerly mentioned, being assisted by the Rev. Mr. Moore, of Hempstead, and the Rev. Mr. Bloomer, of Newtown, Long Island."

After Provoost's consecration to the Episcopate his first recorded ordination appears to have been that of Richard Channing Moore, who was ordered Deacon by the Bishop on July 15, 1787, and advanced to the Priesthood October 22, 1787. Mr. Moore was then rector of St. Andrew's Church, Richmond, Staten Island, and afterwards became Bishop of Virginia.

Acknowledgment

Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following for contributions to the Archives: The Rt. Rev. C. S. Burch, the Rev. Drs. William T. Manning, John P. Peters, Arthur H. Judge, George F. Nelson, William M. Grosvenor, Ernest M. Stires, Frank W. Crowder, W. Bertrand Stevens and Floyd S. Leach, the Rev. Messrs. William H. Owen, Herbert Shipman, Stephen F. Holmes, C. T. Pise, W. W. Reid, Kenneth Guthrie, Mr. Eugene Camp and the Church Temperance Society.

Respectfully submitted,

E. CLOWES CHORLEY,
Historiographer.

APPENDIX C

REPORT

Of the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine

THE RIGHT REVEREND DAVID H. GREER, D.D.
Bishop of New York

THE VERY REVEREND WILLIAM M. GROSVENOR, D.D., Dean
THE VEN. WILLIAM H. POTT, PH.D., Archdeacon
THE REVEREND GEORGE F. NELSON, D.D.

THE REVEREND ROBERT ELLIS JONES, D.D., Bursar

The ReverenD E. BRIGGS NASH, B.D., Dean's Vicar

THE REVEREND PROFESSOR DICKINSON S. MILLER, D.Sc., Special Preacher

The Dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine would report that during the year, from November 1, 1915, to November 1, 1916, there have been held in the Cathedral eight hundred and thirty-eight (838) services,

including four hundred and forty-nine (449) Celebrations of the Holy Communion and one hundred and one (101) special services, viz.: Opening Service of Diocesan Convention; Corporate Communion of Officers of Girls' Friendly Society; Corporate Communions of Brotherhood of St. Andrew on Thanksgiving Day and Washington's Birthday; Brahms' "Requiem"; Corporate Communion of Woman's Auxiliary in Advent; Christmas Carol Service; Corporate Communion of Diocesan Auxiliary to the Cathedral; Watch Night Service on New Year's Eve; Corporate Communion of the Prayer and Service Union of the Woman's Auxiliary; Special Services for Daughters of the King, for the United States Boy Scouts, for the Actors' Church Alliance (Shakespeare Tercentenary), for 100th Anniversary of American Bible Society, for the Royal Arcanum, for the Knights Templar; Consecration of the Chapel of St. Boniface; Parker's "Hora Novissima"; Gounod's "Mors et Vita"; Six Preaching Mission Services; Memorial Service for Miss Susan Blow; Corporate Communions of Parochial Treasurers of Woman's Auxiliary United Offering, and of Mission Study Classes, and a Quiet Day for Sunday-school Workers; Consecration of Chapel of St. James; Breaking Ground for the Nave of the Cathedral on May 8; Presentation Service of Sunday-school Lenten Offerings for Missions; Blessing of Pulpit in Cathedral Close; Closing Service of New York Training School for Deaconesses; Trinity Sunday Ordinations; Blessing of Pulpit erected in memory of Bishop H. C. Potter; Retreat for Deaconesses; Service to Commemorate the Presentation of the Woman's Auxiliary Triennial Offering at St. Louis; 32 Italian Celebrations of the Holy Communion in Chapel of St. Ambrose; 42 Services in St. Saviour's Chapel for the Congregation of St. Jude's Chapel (colored).

Regular services at the Cathedral are held as follows: First Sunday in the month, 8 A.M., Holy Communion; 9 A.M., Holy Communion in Italian; 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; 9 A.M., Holy Communion in Italian; 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; 9 A.M., Holy Communion in Italian; 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 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday; on 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, Litany, Penitential Office and Sermon at 11 A.M.; Good Friday, Morning Prayer 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 for boys of the highest standard, 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 Delegates from one hundred and thirteen (113) parishes, and nearly one thousand (1,000) 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 working colored women, and St. John's Club House for Boys, at 39 West 131st Street.

THE CATHEDRAL LEAGUE (Robert G. Hone, 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 1916 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. It was planned to select the greater part of the beneficiaries from the following churches: The Holy