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1936

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December 13. Celebration of our 75th Year

Bishop Wm. Lawrence

The Rt. Rev. William Lawrence, D.D., Bishop of Massachusetts (1893-1927). Photo credit: WikiCommons

Our fifth rector, The Rev. Dr. Phillips Endecott Osgood, said in his sermon:  “We are stewards of an inheritance, interpreters of a tradition”.  Organist Dr. Albert Snow composed an anthem for the service.  Bishop Emeritus William Lawrence praised our first four wardens:

  • Edward Sprague Rand (1st senior warden), a trustworthy, public-spirited lawyer
  • William Richards Lawrence (1st junior warden), who had bought the land for our church. was his uncle.
  • Benjamin Tyler Reed (2nd senior warden), who founded in Cambridge the Episcopal Theological School, which became the Episcopal Divinity School
  • Enoch Reddington Mudge (2nd junior warden), who later built St. Stephen’s Church, Lynn

For more detail, see Boston Globe, Dec. 14, 1936, p. 4:  “Bishop Lawrence in Tribute to Early Emmanuel Wardens. Services Celebrate 75th Birthday of Church. Dr. Osgood Views Future”.

 

1929

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Upon the planned retirement of The Rev. Elwood Worcester, The Rev. Dr. Benjamin Martin Washburn became rector. For more about the Washburn tenure during the Great Depression, please see the chapter on him in Emmanuel Church, 1860-1960: The First Hundred Years.

This image of “The Emmanuelists” honors men associated with the Emmanuel Movement during Worcester’s rectorship: (top row) William James, Richard C. Cabot, Joseph Hersey Pratt, Pierre Janet & (bottow row): Lyman Pierson Powell, Samuel McComb, Elwood Worcester, Isador Coriat, and Courtenay Baylor.

1927

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Having preached his first sermon at Emmanuel on Dec. 5, 1926, the Rev. James Dirickson Cummins then served as Associate Minister throughout the remainder of Elwood Worcester’s tenure as rector.  He ministered especially to the parish youth and preached at the 4pm Sunday services, which had special musical offerings. He lived with his wife Katherine P. Whaley Cummins and their young son at 68 Commonwealth Avenue. For the historic homes of our clergy, parishioners, and more, see our Parish Historian‘s map.

1923

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The Rev. Percy Tom Edrop (1883-1945) became assistant to Elwood Worcester and began to preach at our afternoon services.  Having immigrated as a teenager from Birmingham, England, he had worked his way up in journalism to become city editor of the New York American. He served at Emmanuel until June 1926, when he became rector of All Saints, Belmont MA. In 1929  he became Dean of Christ Church Cathedral in Springfield MA.

1913

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Lynnwood Farnam

Lynnwood Farnam

When Weston Gale retired, Lynnwood Farnam became Emmanuel’s organist, a post he held until 1918, when he left to join the Canadian Army.  According to the L. F. Society, when the Music Committee asked what he would play for his audition, “He handed them a notebook containing a list of 200 pieces which he had memorized, saying “Anything in this book.”

We thank the Royal Canadian College of Organists for this photo. For more about Lynnwood Farnam, see 1914, 1918, 1932, and History of Music at Emmanuel.

13 Mar. Bishop William Lawrence presided at the funeral of Silas Reed Anthony, which was attended by more than 400.  Born in 1863, he had become a Boston banker and served as Clerk of the Vestry (1887-97) and Jr. Warden (1907-13).  Assisting the bishop were the Rev. Dr. Samuel McComb and the Rev. Ralph Bray of Emmanuel and the Rev. Charles Clark of Church of the Ascension. Among the pallbearers were Sr. Warden Walter Cabot Baylies, William Endicott, Jr.,  Philip L. & Richard M. Saltonstall, and several Anthony and Weeks relatives.

Nora Iasigi Bullitt

31 May. Nora Iasigi, daughter of parishioners Amelia Gore Iasigi and the late Oscar Iasigi, married at St. Paul’s Church, Stockbridge, US Solicitor General William Marshall Bullitt, great uncle of our parishioner Julian Bullitt.

 

1910

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  • In an ongoing summertime effort, semi-weekly harbor excursions to Bass Point, Nahant, were arranged for about 800 parishioners and their friends.
  • 20 Nov.   Anna Pauline Murray was born in Baltimore MD.  Pauli (as she became known) was to become a famous civil-rights lawyer, a member of our vestry, our postulant for Holy Orders, and a saint of The Episcopal Church. For details of her many accomplishments, please see our guide to resources about her.

1905

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Tuberculosis Class, organized by Joseph H. Pratt MD and Lesley H. Spooner, MD., reached 308 patients in its first year.

The Rev. Dr. Samuel McComb (1864–1938) became Associate Rector. Raised in Belfast, Ireland, with a doctorate from Oxford University, he had taught church history at Queens University, Ontario, and served as a Presbyterian minister in England and New York City before his ordination in the Episcopal Church. He became a spokesman for the Emmanuel Movement during its active years.  See also 1909 and his many works available on Amazon and full text from Hathi Trust.


November 23.  Emmanuel Memorial House was dedicated.  Given by Harriet Pitts Weeks (Mrs. Silas Reed) Anthony in memory of her father Andrew Gray Weeks, whose widow gave its playground.  It was located at 11 Newcomb St. around the corner from 1906 Washington St., where our diocese maintained a mission in the South End, Church of the Ascension (now Grant African Methodist Episcopal Church).  Through the Emmanuel House Committee, Emmanuel parishioners helped with the kindergarten and summer play school for neighborhood children.  They also ran homemaking and other classes and a gymnasium for Ascension parishioners. Emmanuel Memorial House567

1902

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Vicar Arthur L. Bumpus reported that the Sunday School of our mission Church of the Ascension had on its books 500 children, of whom about 300 attended on a given Sunday. The Rev. Bumpus, who was born 1871 in Quincy MA, son of Judge Everett C. B.,  graduated Harvard College in 1891, and joined the Rev. Edward L. Atkinson at Ascension in 1899.  He eventually became rector of Trinity Church on Long Island NY, where his funeral was held in 1926.

The Rt. Rev. Dr. Alexander Hamilton Vinton (1852-1911), namesake and nephew of our second rector, became Bishop of Western Massachusetts.

1891

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bronze statue of Brooks outside Trinity Church

Augustus St. Gaudens’ bronze of Jesus blessing Phillips Brooks was installed on Boylston St. in 1910.

14 Oct.  Our second rector, the Rev. Dr. Alexander Hamilton Vinton, preached at the installation of the Rev. Dr. Phillips Brooks at Trinity Church, which had been recently constructed by H. H. Richardson under his direction in nearby Copley Square.  Vinton was a mentor of Brooks, whose prayer our rector, the Rev. Pamela Werntz,  prays (in modified form) at the start of her sermons:  O God, grant us the strength, the wisdom and the courage to seek always and everywhere after truth, come when it may, and cost what it will.

Later in the year Brooks was elected Bishop of Massachusetts.

1890

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Feb. 8.  Under the direction of the Rev. Walter E. Smith, Chapel of the Ascension moved to its new home at 1906 Washington St..  At that time its Sunday School had 15 teachers and 200 registered students, and there were 175 congregants. The church was consecrated by Bishop H. Paddock as Church of the Ascension.  Our founding rector F.D. Huntington, by then Bishop of Central New York, returned to preach the inaugural sermon. He praised Emmanuel for funding the building and developing the programs of this mission :  “A true parish is one which is always working for others.  The missionary spirit may be called the first distinguishing mark of this congregation.”   —Emmanuel Church: The First 100 Years, p. 21.