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Then a few days later came the news of Anne's death and of the marriage of the King with Jane Seymour on the following day. At least Jane was a lawful wife and queen in the Catholics' eyes, for Katharine too was dead. Chris had now passed through the minor orders, the sub-diaconate and the diaconate, and was looking forward to priesthood.

It did not mend matters that about that time I tried a little truth-telling in my own fold and came to grief. It did not prove to be any more popular on Long Island than in New York. I resigned the diaconate and was thinking of hiring a hall a theatre could be had on Sunday wherein to preach my lay sermon, when I came across Dr. Schauffler, the manager of the City Mission Society, and Dr.

I believe, in connection with the sessions of the Diocesan Convention. Of those who were admitted on that third of August to the diaconate, another will speak to you as I could not, so that little remains for me to add.

He was to come through that campaign all right, and back to our part of Africa that he loved so dearly. 'We shall have him back, I hope, before the end of this month, the Superintendent of Missions told me. 'The Bishop seems willing to ordain him before Christmas. He's not likely to need a long diaconate, is he?

I fancy he has some odd notions. Well, perhaps I shall be able to put him right, if I am patient and friendly. It is rather plain that I shall have a lot of missionary work to do here among these dissenters." So he turned to his bookshelves and took down a volume on The Primitive Diaconate and the Reconstruction of Christendom.

Should it be said that this does not refer to the diaconate, it may be answered that the obituary notice of his widow, who died in 1838, speaks of him as "the first clergyman ordained by the first American Bishop." After his admission to Holy Orders, according to his own statement, Mr.

After four years of faithful service she was succeeded by Sister Regena Bowe who has now for fifteen years by her devoted work illustrated the value of the female diaconate in the work of our churches in New York. Deaconeses are now laboring in seven of our churches. They are needed in a hundred congregations.

It is a wonderful arrangement for mutual help." "It gives to all our societies a family feeling. We are what we call ourselves brothers and sisters;" and, with a smile, he stretched out his hand to take the one which Phyllis, by some sympathetic understanding, offered him. "There was something like it in the apostolic Church?" "Yes; our class-leader is the apostolic diaconate.

To the administrators thus designated were given the Syriac name of Schammaschin. They were also sometimes called "the Seven," to distinguish them from "the Twelve." Such, then, was the origin of the diaconate, which is found to be the most ancient ecclesiastical function, the most ancient of sacred orders. Later, all the organized churches, in imitation of that of Jerusalem, had deacons.

Beardsley then read the following biographical account of the four candidates admitted to the diaconate by Bishop Seabury at his first ordination: Of the candidates ordained in Middletown on the third of August, 1785, COLIN FERGUSON was the only one not of Connecticut. He came from Maryland, and the testimonials recommending him were signed by the Rev. Dr.