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 ST. PAUL’S CHURCH, AUGUSTA, GA. 
 April 22, 23, 24, 1923 
 
 
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 The One Hundred and First 
 Annual Convention 
 
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 THE PUHLICITY DEPARTMENT 
 
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 J'HE BISHOP AND EXECUTIVE COUNCH. 
 OF THE DIOCESE 
 
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 in 2019 with funding from 
 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 
 
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l^ishop Stephen Klliott 
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 IJishop Jolin Watrus Beckwith 
 
 Bishop C'lelancI Kinloch NelsdU 
 
 Bishop Frederick F. Reese 
 IBOS- 
 
strenjjtli and hifi::her hopes for a new and jirreater eenturv of conquest for 
 Christ and Jdis Church. 
 
 “We welcome with all our hearts the re})resentatives of the Church School 
 Service League and its Senior De])artment, the Young People’s Service Lea¬ 
 gue. This is the sure enough Convention. Here is the Church of tomorrow. 
 For all the generations of the past we have brought our children along 
 through the Sunday School uj) to Confirmation and the adolescent age and 
 then forgotten all about them. At last we have found them and they are 
 glad to be found. They have youth and life and energy to give to the Church 
 and all they ask is to be shown how. 'I'hey are here and we ought to thank 
 (rod. It’s our job to kee]i them and we're got to move to do it.” 
 
 St. Paul’s Church is well equipjied for a convention headquarters, but 
 even with the space offered by this parish it was hardly adequate for the many 
 activities of this unusual occasion, as four large meetings were in session on 
 the two days following the ojiening services. Nothing could have surpassed 
 the hospitality of the parish nor the competency of the Rector and Com¬ 
 mittees who worked so well and arduously to make the celebration the honor 
 that it is to the Diocese. 
 
ST. PAUL’S CHURCH, AUGUSTA 1819 
 
 St. Paul's was a Colonial C'hurcli under the English Crown; was established 
 under (leneral ()glethor])e, at Fort Augusta, afterwards called Fort Corn¬ 
 wallis. in wa.s the last stand of the Britisli in a l)loody battle at .\ugusta, 
 
 when the town was caj^tured hv' Eight Horse Harry Eee. 'I'he site of the 
 F'ort is marked by a Celtic Cross erected hv the Georgia Society of the Colonial 
 Dames of vVmerica. 
 
 The Log C'hurch erected in 1750 was destroyed during the Heyolution. In 
 I7S0 a frame building was erected which was remoyed in 1810 to giye ]>lace 
 to the brick Colonial Church, 'i'his was destroyed by tire together with a 
 n(“w Parish House in lOlO. Since that time the ])resent Church and Parish 
 
 Ihmse have been built, the exterior of the ('hurch being almost a fac-similc 
 
 of the one destroyed. 'I'he ('on\ention of 1823 was held in this ('hurch. 
 
OPENING OF THE CENTENNIAL 
 
 Tltp C'cMitonnial oprnpd ^iunday morning, April 22, with a celehration of 
 the Holy ('onimunion, tiu* Kt. Hpv. H. .L Mikpll, D.D., being the celebrant. 
 This service was particularly intended as a Corporate C'onnnunion for the 
 Church Sch(M)l Service League and the ^'oung People’s S<‘rvice League. 
 
 At 11:15 o’clock the service of Morning Prayer was held. .\t this sessitm 
 the church was })acked and chairs were placed in the aishvs to acconunodate 
 th<* crowd. 
 
 rhe procession moved from the Parish House, to the west (hK)r of the 
 church and marched up the central aisle, t«) the chancel, singing the hymn, 
 “Oh, ’twas a Joyful sound to hear.” 
 
 First came the vested choir of men ajul women preceded by the (.'riicifer, 
 then came rejiresentatives of the Vestries of Christ C'hurch, Savannah and of 
 St. Paul’s Church, Augusta, and luemhers t»f the Standing ('ommittees t)f 
 the DicK’cses of CJeorgia and Atlanta. I’nfortunately no members of the 
 vestry of Christ C’hurch, Frederica, the third of the (iriginal parishes were 
 able to he ])resent. 'I'lien followed the clergy, white and colored, and after 
 them the Kt. Rev. Kirkman (1. Finlay, D.D., Kishop of l’p])er South Caro¬ 
 lina; the Ht. Rev. Albion W. Knight, D.D., sometime Rishoj) of C'uba and 
 Vice Chancellor «)f the I'niversity of the South; the Rt. Rev. Henry .1. .Mikell, 
 D.D., Bishop of .\tlanta, and the Rt. Rev. Frederick F. Reese, D.D., the 
 Bishop of the Diocese. 
 
 rhe sermon was preached by tbe Bishoj) of the Diocese and was a brief 
 r«*view of the history of the F iocese from its organization making especially 
 note of its progress under the leadershij) of its former Bishops, Klliott, Beck¬ 
 with and Nelson. 
 
 'I'he Di(X’esan was alsu the celebrant at the Holy Communion and assisted 
 l)y the visiting Bishops, the Bishop of Cpper South Carolina, reading the 
 Fpistle, and IBshop Knight the Gospel. 
 
 'I'he President of the National C’ouncil, the Rt. Rev. I'homas F. (bailor, 
 D.D., LL.D., S.'l'.D., the Bishop of 'I'ermessee, was to have been an honored 
 guest, but the venerable and greatly beloved Presiding Bishop, the Rt. Rev. 
 Daniel Sylvester 'I'little, D.D., LL.D., D.C.L., having died the first of the week, 
 he was detained by attemlance on tbe .Memorial Service held at W’asbing- 
 ton, I). C. 
 
 For tbe Fvening Service the church was again crowded and addresses 
 were made by Bisho)) Mikell and Dr. William (’. Sturgis, Kducational Se¬ 
 cretary of the Department of .Missions of the National Council. 'The offer- 
 t(»ry was given to the building fund of St. .I«>hn’.s Church, .Moultrie. 
 
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MUSICAL PROGRAM 
 
 CENTENNIAL SERVICES 
 
 DIOCESE OF GEORGIA 
 1823-1923 
 
 ST. PAUL’S CHURCH, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA 
 
 Rt. Rev. Frederick F. Reese, D.D., Bishop 
 Rev. G. Sherwood Whitney, M.A., Rector 
 
 THIRD SUNDAY AFTER EASTER, APRH. TWENTY-SECOND 
 The Services at Eleven-Fifteen O’Clock 
 
 MORNING PAYER AND HOLY COMMUNION 
 
 Organ Prelude. Finlandia. Sibelius 
 
 Processional Hymn 493.—“O ’Twas a Joyful Sound to Hear”. Parker 
 
 Venite. Exultemus Domino. -Boyce 
 
 Psalter . Psalm 84 
 
 Jubilate Deo. Nevin 
 
 Introit. “God So I.oved the World”. Stainer 
 
 Kyrie Eleison .■-. Barnby 
 
 Gloria Tibi . Tolin 
 
 Hymn. 450—“All Hail the Power of Jesus Name”... Holden 
 
 Sermon. Rt. Rev. F. F. Reese, D.D.. Bishop of Georgia 
 
 Offertory Anthem. “Send Out Thy Light”. Gounod 
 
 Doxology.--.--. ..Old Hundred 
 
 Sanctus . Garrett 
 
 Agnus Dei. Gounod 
 
 Gloria in Excelsis. Old Chant 
 
 Sevenfold Amen . Stainer 
 
 Nunc Dimittis . -....-....Harris 
 
 Recessional Hynm 397—“O What the Joy and the Glory Must Be’”. 
 
 ... ..Indent Plain Song 
 
 Organ Postlude. Great Fuge in G Minor.J- S. Bach 
 
 THE EVENING SERVICE AT EIGHT-FIFTEEN O’CLOCK 
 
 Organ Prelude. Suite Gothique. Boellman 
 
 Processional. Hymn 311.—“Ancient of Days”. 
 
 Hymn 253—“Fling Out the Banner Let it Float” 
 
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Hymn. 24-9 “() /ion Haste”. ]\ aJch 
 
 *()flFertorv Anthem. Hynm 459—“O Worship the King”. Maunder 
 
 Presentation of Alms. Hymn 478 -“Holy Offerings Rich and Wixve"..Readhead 
 
 Sevenfold Amen. Stainer 
 
 Recessional Hymn 582—“Stand U]i, Stand Up for Jesus”. Stainer 
 
 ()r}>;an Postlude. Fantasie in G Minor. Fricker 
 
 *The congregation is invited to join in singing the 1st, 3rd and last verses 
 of the Offertory Anthem. The last verse to he sung in unison. 
 
 Geo. 1>. Johnson, E. S. Bothwell, 
 
 Oiujanist. Choir Director. 
 
 'J'he choir, augmented for the occasion by members of the other Augusta 
 choirs, rendered especially heautifid programs for both services. 
 
 At 9:30 o'clock Monday, Morning Prayer was read and at 10 o'clock the 
 Bishop formally o])ened the one hundred and first Diocesan Convention, which 
 continued in session with intervals until Tuesday afternoon. 
 
 THE CENTENNIAL PAGEANT 
 
 Prohal)ly no where else in the Diocese could a more beautiful spot have 
 been found for the Pageant, combining both an historic and ])icturesque back¬ 
 ground, than the churchyard of St. Paul's, the site of old Fort Augusta, on 
 the hanks of the Savannah River. This elaborate Pageant, ])re])ared and 
 produced by the Department of Religious Education, was given on Monday 
 afternoon, before an audience of 1000 people. 
 
 Assisted by the Bishop, Mr. Whitney, Mrs. Craig Barrow and Mrs. Mal¬ 
 colm Bell, of Savannah, and oth.ers, the Reverend W. Aimison Jonnard, Kixecu- 
 tive Secretary of the Department, compiled tlie })ageant, and supervised 
 the whole production which was directed by Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Cartier of 
 the Augusta Community Service. Two hundred and fifty persons beautifully 
 costumed, took part, and as character after character, and scene after scene, 
 passed in review, a deep S])irit of reverence j)ervaded the assemblage. When 
 the final tableau was presented, depicting the Spirit of the Church, a young 
 girl l)earing aloft the Cross, with the National and State Flags borne by two 
 other girls on each side of her, the Bishop in the center of the tableau, the 
 entire audience rose and joined in the singing of the Doxology. It was a most 
 inspiring scene indeed, and a fitting climax to the two days’ celebration. 
 
 The })rolocutor, who was the Reverend W. W. Meminger, Rector of All 
 Saints’ Church, Atlanta, read the lines most beautifully, and his well-placed 
 and unusually fine voice carried to the far ends of the grounds. 
 
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CHRIST CHURCH, SAVANNAH, 1833 
 
 'I’he Colony of Georgia was founded by English Colonists under General 
 Oglethorpe in 1788. The Rev. Henry Herbert came with Oglethorj^e as 
 Cha])lain and held the first services of the Church, returning soon to England 
 on account of illness. 
 
 'I'he Rev. Jolm Wesley arrived in Feb. 178(;, ie)naining less than two years, 
 estahlishing the first Sunday School in the world. He was succeeded in 1788 
 by the Rev. George Whitefield, who, though a great evangelist, sjient most of 
 his time and eloquence in establishing the Rethesda Orphanage which is still 
 flourishing. 
 
 The most effective work of colonial times was done by the Rev. Bartholo- 
 men Zouberbuhler, a Swiss by-birth, whose Rectorship extended from 1746‘ to 
 176(i. During this time the first Christ Church was built in 1750. Enlarged 
 in 17(>(), burned in 1796, rebuilt during the years 1801-1806 and replaced in 1888 
 by the present structure. 
 
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THE DIOCESAN FAMILY DINNER 
 
 The rays of the setting sun had scarcely shed their beams on the final 
 tableau of the Pageant, when the Bishop and his “Diocesan Family” gathered 
 for the Convention dinner tendered by St. Paul’s and given at the Partridge 
 Inn, Over two hundred and fifty sat down in this sociable way and enjoyed 
 a beautiful dinner, at small tables, the speakers’ table seating fifteen or 
 twenty. Mr, Whitney, as Rector of the Parish, was toastmaster, and fulfilled 
 this duty with delightful geniality and spontaneous wit. Before the addresses, 
 Mr. Whitney called on all those who had been confirmed by the four Bishops 
 of Georgia to stand. First those who had been confirmed by Bishop Elliott, 
 and three women stood; then, by Bishop Beckwith, and thirty-three responded 
 by Bishop Nelson, and there were forty-five present, and by the present Bishop 
 fifty-five. Special guests of the Centennial, were Miss Sarah Barnwell Elliott 
 of Sewanee, daughter of the first Bishop, and Mrs. A. 11. Lawton and Miss 
 Elizabeth Beckwith, daughters of the second Bishop, who occupied seats at 
 the Speakers’ Table. Mrs. Nelson, widow of Bishop Nelson, was unable to 
 be present. Mrs. Reese sat on the Bishop’s left, with Mr. Whitney on his 
 right, and Mrs. Whitney, was on the right of Mr. Whitney. The first address 
 was made by the Bishop who spoke of the joy the whole Centennial was 
 giving him, especially the opportunity of having so many of his “family” 
 surrounding him on this occasion. Bishop Mikell followed and paid a beau¬ 
 tiful tribute to the Bishop, who “though” he said “could not be the Bishop 
 of Atlanta, was the Bishop of its Bishop,” as in all perplexities and difficul¬ 
 ties when he needed advice, he turned to the Bishop of Georgia. Miss Sarah 
 Elliott, gowned in the insignia of the doctor’s degree conferred on her by the 
 University of the South, in an able address recalled the life of her dis¬ 
 tinguished father. Bisho]) Guerry was the last speaker, and he like-wise 
 ])aid tribute to the Bishop and his Diocese, and just before the close of 
 file ]irogram, Mr. Whitney introduced Mr. Benjamin F. Finney, the Vice 
 Chancellor of the University of the South. 
 
 THE WOMAN’S AUXILIARY 
 
 At the Woman’s Auxiliary meetings, following reports of the year’s work, 
 an address on Prayer was made by Dr. Sturgis, and others who addressed 
 these sessions were the Bishop, Bishop Finlay, Bishop Guerry, Mrs. A. M. 
 Waddell of the Diocese of East Carolina, Miss Edith D. Johnston, Executive 
 Secretary of the Diocesan Nation-Wide Campaign Department, and the Rev. 
 J. Henry Brown, Archdeacon of the Colored work. 
 
 THE CHURCH SCHOOL SERVICE LEAGUE 
 
 I he delegates to the second annual meeting of the Church School Service 
 League were the superintendents and teachers of the Church Schools, and at 
 their sessions the question especially discussed was the one of week-day sessions 
 of the schools. An especially interesting address was made by Mrs. A. Davis 
 Taylor of Tennessee. 
 
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THE YOUNG PEOPLE’S SERVICE LEAGUE 
 
 One of the most inspiring features of the Convention, aside from the his¬ 
 torical sentiment in connection witli the Centennial, was the presence of so 
 many young people, full of enthusiasm. They held their own business 
 meetings and joined in the special services and entertainments when all of 
 the Convention delegates were l)rought together. Their ban(]uet, given on 
 Saturday evening, was a most interesting occasion. 
 
 The first part of the evening was given over to fun and merriment, and 
 the walls rang with the cheers and rollicking songs that created a spirit of 
 informality and joy. The presiding officer was Thomas Marion Johnson, pre¬ 
 sident of St. Paul's I.,eague, and he presided with the ease of an experienced 
 toastmaster. At the conclusion of the dinner, Mr. Johnson introduced the 
 special speakers who represented three districts in the Diocese, Barron 
 Howard of Savannah who spoke on the sid)ject: “The Church—Our Mother”; 
 Miss Elizabeth Matthews, of Augusta, on “We—The Church’s Children”; and 
 Clark Gurley, of Bainbridge, on “Non Sibi, Sed Alliis.” Following these talks, 
 the Rev. Mr. Jonnard read a most impressive pageant and Bishop Mikell was 
 then called on and said he had been asked to bridge the chasm between the 
 song “Skin-a-ma-Rink” and the serious side. Our Bishop gave the final 
 thought, and the whole company then adjourned to the church where Dr. 
 Sturgis conducted a preparation for the next day’s corporate Communion. 
 
 THEIR BUSINESS MEETINGS 
 
 Sunday afternoon, Mr. Jonnard was the chairman of an interesting meet¬ 
 ing and at this session presented the prize for the Program Contest offered by 
 the Department of Religious Education for the best progranv for a Y. P. S. 
 Ij. meeting. The prize, a gold cross, was won by Miss Nell Green, of St. 
 Paul’s, Augusta. 
 
 At the business session the next morning, following a suggestion of the 
 Bishop’s, concurred in by Bishop Mikell, at the banquet, a Georgia inter¬ 
 diocesan Y. P. S. ly. was organized, with one president and secretary, and 
 diocesan vice presidents, secretaries and treasurers. 
 
 CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICE 
 
 The Diocesan Department of Christian Social Service held a Conference 
 on Sunday afternoon at the Churcli of the Good Shepherd, where the vice- 
 chairman, the Rev. H. Hobart Barber, is Rector. An address was made by 
 the Rev. George Croft Williams, of Columbia, S. C., who is secretary of the 
 State Board of Public Welfare, and after the conference an informal meeting 
 was held, and Mr. Barber heard reports from the parishes and missions re¬ 
 presented. 
 
 EXHIBITS 
 
 Two exhibits were shown in the Parish House, one by the Department of 
 Religious Education, including hand work made by the Church School Sei- 
 vice League, not only in tlie Diocese of Georgia, l)ut also in the Diocese of 
 
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Atlanta, and also one by the Pnblieity I)e])artinent, which exhibited charts 
 on C'lnirch publicity and adverti.sinfr, cli}p>infr books of Diocesan publicity, 
 and one from the National De])artnient on the Cieneral Convention publicity, 
 together with a table of free literature. 
 
 PUBLICITY FOR THE CONVENTION 
 
 Antieipatin^ that the })ublicity for the Convention would require organized 
 and systematic effort, the Publicity De])artment made arrangements with the 
 local authorities to handle ])ublicity in a business-like way. The methods 
 of the National De])artment used in Portland for the General Convention were 
 ado])ted on a small scale. A ])ress room was equipped with typewriters etc., 
 and there was a ])ublicity staff of five who acted as “a source of news” for 
 siqiplying the local re})orters with correct infornration of the proceedings of 
 the several meetings. During the three days of the Centennial, the local 
 press, 'riie .\ugusta Chronicle and The Augusta Herald, devoted thirty-seven 
 columns of space to the Convention and attendant features, besides con¬ 
 siderable advance ])ublieity. 
 
 THE COLORED COUNCIL 
 
 In order to take part in the Diocesan Centennial and to have 0 ])portunity 
 of hearing some of the s}>eakers on the Centennial j>rogram, the Council of 
 Colored Churchmen of the Diocese met for its eighteenth annual council in St. 
 -Mary’s Church, Augusta, April 22-24. The Council had the largest atten¬ 
 dance in the history of its organization, there being forty-five present. The 
 Woman’s Auxiliary made the most distinctive advance. Its annual offering 
 at the Cor})orate Communion was $235.00 to be distributed as follows: 
 St. Athanasius’ School, Brunswick, $101.00; scholarship for theological students, 
 $80.00; the Mission at Pennick, Glynn County, Georgia, $10.00. The most con¬ 
 structive stej> taken was the election of a Social Service Agent for the colored 
 work. Addresses were made by Bisho}>s Mikell, and Finlay, Dr. Sturgis, 
 Kev. S. B. McGlohon of Savannah, and Mrs. Waddell, who addressed the 
 Woman’s Auxiliary. 
 
 FORWARD FOR THE NEW CENTURY 
 
 With our heritage from the })ast may we not take a forward look for the 
 new century, believing that we are indeed at the threshold of a new era? 'I'he 
 ])rogram of the Church for carrying on her Mission is opened out before 
 us and who can hesitate to answer the call to arms and to gird himself for 
 the battle? So holding before us our marching orders,—'Fhe Church’s Pro¬ 
 gram—may this Diocese, led by our beloved Bishop as (’onimander, leap on¬ 
 ward and ever onward through these next years that are ours to use, in such 
 a way as never before dreamed of in this dear old Diocese of Georgia, with 
 the Bishop’s text to guide us. 
 
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CHRIST CHURCH, FREDERICA, 1885 
 
 In 178() General ()gletlu)r})e began to build the town and Fort of Frederica 
 on St. Simon’s Island as a protection against the Spaniards. He was ac¬ 
 companied by his Secretary and Chaplain, the Rev. Charles Wesley, who 
 for a short time gave the services of the Church to the pco])le. 
 
 From that time on until the Revolution the Church was su}>plied with 
 Missionaries by the Society for the Propagation of the Gos})el. Among them 
 John Wesley and George Whitefield came over from Savannah to officiate. 
 
 The first Church was built of tabby and was a combination chapel and 
 store house. The second Church called the Bee Hive Church was erected in 
 1820. The present Church was erected in 1885. 
 
 Further details of the history of these three Churches and of the Diocese 
 will be found in a phamphlet entitled “How the Church Came to Georgia,” by 
 Rev. Jas. B. Lawrence, Secretary of the Diocese. 
 
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THE BISHOP’S HISTORICAL SERMON 
 
 “The Lord, our God, be with us, as He was with our Fathers.”—1 
 
 Kings 
 
 8:5. 
 
 “The special event which we are conimeinorating today is the organization 
 as a diocese of the Church in Georgia, which was accomplished in St. Paul’s 
 Church, in this city on Feb. 24, 1823. 
 
 “The review of a hundred years in the time usually allowed to a sermon 
 is manifestly impossible, except in the most cursory fashion. For that reason 
 I shall only briefly allude to the history of the Church previous to that date. 
 
 “We all know that when Oglethorpe landed with his colonists in 1733, he 
 brought with him a priest of the Church of England, the Rev. Henry Her¬ 
 bert, D.D., and that a succession of clergymen served with intervals as chap¬ 
 lains and pastors to the people until the War of Independence. Included 
 among these were the world famous men, John and Charles Wesley and 
 George Whitefield, the founder of Bethesda, and one other entitled to honor¬ 
 able mention for his faithful service of twenty years, the Rev. Bartholomew 
 Zouberbuhler, during whose ministry the first Christ Church in Savannah, 
 begun in 1740, was finally completed in 1750. 
 
 “The results of the War of Independence were as elsewhere to leave the 
 Church in a discouraged and depressed condition. There were but three con¬ 
 gregations in the State, one in Savannah, one in Augusta, and one on St. 
 Simon’s Island. Without organization and without a Bishop, these parishes 
 maintained an inde})endent but uncertain existence. In 1815 Bishop Dehon 
 of South Carolina, visited Savannah and consecrated the church there and 
 confirmed fifty persons presented by the rector, the Rev. Walter Cranston. 
 This was the first confirmation ever held in Georgia. In 1821, Bishop Bowen 
 of South Carolina, consecrated St. Paul’s Church, Augusta, and in 1823 at 
 Savannah confirmed seventy-eight persons, presented by the Rev. Abiel Carter. 
 
 “In the meantime, however, the faithful few had made the first effort to 
 find each other in the unity of the Church. For on Feb. 24, 1823, three 
 clergymen and six laymen (not five as usually stated), met in St. Paul’s Au¬ 
 gusta, and organized a convention and a diocese. They were the Rev. Abiel 
 Carter of Christ Church, Savannah; the Rev. Hugh Smith of St. Paul’s Au¬ 
 gusta, and the Rev. Edmund Matthews of Christ Church, St. Simon’s Island. 
 The laymen were Dr. J. B. Read and Peter Guerard from Christ Church, 
 Savannah; John Course, Edward F. Campbell and Dr. Thomas I. Wray from 
 St. Paul’s Augusta, and later during the session Dr. W. M. Parker from Sa¬ 
 vannah. The Rev. Mr. Carter was elected president, and Dr. Wray, secretary. 
 They proceeded with great dignity and due formality to conduct their business, 
 as though the convention was a regular occurrence. They adopted rules of 
 order, and a constitution and canons for the government of the diocese, elected 
 a standing committee, acceded to the constitution of the Protestant Episco¬ 
 pal Church in the United States and elected deputies to tlie next General Con- 
 
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vention. Bishop Bowen was formally invited to ])erform Ej)iseopal offices in 
 the State in accordance with the canons of the Church. 
 
 “But they were not content to do the formal things necessary to ])erfect 
 an organization. They knew that throughout the State there were scattered 
 groups and individual members of the Church and they drew up an ‘Address 
 of the First Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church for the state of 
 Georgia’ to their scattered hretliren. In this address they said that the pre¬ 
 sent was an interesting era in the local historv of their venerable Church and 
 marked the dawn of a brighter day; that she was now ‘as a city that was 
 at unity with itself.’ They thanked God that He had preserved her members, 
 few and as strangers in the land, ‘in their attachment to her pure and pri¬ 
 mitive princi]>les.’ They reminded them that it was their duty and their pri¬ 
 vilege to be ‘fellow workers with God’ in building up and extending the 
 Church. ‘It was the Church of their fathers,’ they wrote. ‘Her ministry is 
 Apostolic, her constitution primitive, her services are fervent and animated, 
 yet chastened and reverential, her doctrines were the doctrines of the Bible, 
 tbe doctrines of tbe Cross.’ They reminded them also that they were engaged 
 in a work for which posterity would bless their memory. They knew that 
 there were difficulties. Their number was small and the individuals scattered. 
 But the obstacles were not insurmountable. ‘Despondency itself,’ said they, 
 ‘must become sanguine, when it inspects the record of past ]n’oceedings.’ 
 They did not wish to be considered as evincing ‘sectarian narrowness,’ but they 
 reminded the people ‘of the exclusive claims of their own Zion u])on their 
 lil)erality,’ for her wants were ‘various and pressing and they entreated the 
 ‘zealous co-operation’ of their brethren ‘in this work of faith and labor of 
 love.’ And like practical men they gave the name and address of the secre¬ 
 tary and the president of the Standing Committee to whom communications 
 and inquiries might be addressed. 
 
 “One other thing these nine men did, was to ado])t a constitution for a 
 society ‘for the General Advancement of Christianity in the State of Georgia.’ 
 This society was to promote the extension of the Church ‘to its destitute 
 members tbroughout the State’ and ‘for the distribution of ]>rayer books and 
 religious tracts.’ Two dollars entitled to membership and $10 at any one 
 time constituted a life member and of tbe life membership receij)ts they ])ro- 
 vided that three-fourths should constitute a ])ermanent fund. 
 
 “Thus begun the organized life of the Church in this State, a few faithful 
 men, full of courage and faith, with a cheerful confidence, who believed in 
 God and loved the Church, faced the issue and difficulties that seemed almost 
 insurmountable. The po})idation of the State in 1823, was a])proximately 390,- 
 000 and there were about 131 communicants or one to nearly 3,000 of the 
 population. Doubtless there were (juite a number of communicants scattered 
 throughout the state of whom no record was possible. In 1825, three parishes 
 reported 104 communicants. 
 
 “'I’he society for the advancement of Christianity was not idle, but with 
 funds collected from the ])eople they engaged a missionary, the Rev. Lot 
 Jones, who came from the Eastern Diocese. '1 he first reeorded result of 
 
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his activity was the organization of a parish in Macon, called Christ Church, 
 which in 1825 was admitted into union with the convention, with nine com¬ 
 municants and of which Mr. Jones became the first rector. 
 
 “I am sure that we Cleorgians, who are here today, the ])osterity to whom 
 these men referred in the ‘address’ do “bless their memory.” Now that they 
 have been long “laid low in the grave” as they wrote, we are reaping ‘fruits 
 of righteousness and joy and peace from that seed which (they) cast into the 
 ground.’ We may still be in comparison with the vast population of our 
 State and its tremendous moral and religious issues a small and feeble folk, 
 but at any rate we are relatively much stronger than they, and we do have, 
 if we will recognize it, the encouragement and strength which comes to us 
 from a well-organized and living national Church. 
 
 “The seed thus planted in 1823 continued to grow, though but slowly, as 
 might be ex]H*cted without the leadershi]> of a Bisho]). In 1840 there were 
 eight clergymen and 323 communicants and the ratio of the population was 
 reduced from one in 3,000 to one in 2,141. This year the eighteenth annual 
 convention assembled in Clarkesville on May 4th. There were present seven 
 clergymen and eight lay delegates rej^resenting the parishes in Savannah, Au¬ 
 gusta, St. Simon’s Island, Macon, Columbus and Clarkesville. A parish in 
 Springfield, Effingham county, near Savannah, called St. Michael’s, elected de¬ 
 legates, bearing the names Charlton and Guerrard, who, however, did not 
 attend. 'I'he C'hurch in Clarkesville was unfinished, ‘being,’ in the language of 
 the rector, the Rev. E. B. Kellogg, ‘but little else than a skeleton.’ In what 
 building the meetings were held is not stated. ‘The convention met,’ the 
 record says, ‘in the parish of Grace Church.’ 
 
 PLANNED TO ELECT A BISHOP 
 
 “At this time, it was resolved to elect a Bishop. His salary was fixed 
 at $2,000 of which Christ Church, Savannah, was to pay $1,000; St. Paul’s Au¬ 
 gusta, $500; Christ Church, Macon, $300; Trinity, Columbus, $100, and St. 
 Simon’s, $100. These little parishes, the largest having only 150 communi¬ 
 cants and the smallest, 15, evidently wanted a Bishop and were willing to 
 ])ay for him. The delegates from Savannah also proposed for its vestry that 
 a new parish should be organized in that city'to be known as‘St. John’s Church, 
 and the rectorship tendered to the bishop-elect, the two rectors to alternate in 
 their resj^ective churches and ‘thus the interests of both be united.’ The con¬ 
 vention was also informed that the organization of the new parish was already 
 under way, and that it woidd pay the bishop-elect as rector a sum sufficient to 
 make his total salary $3,000. 
 
 “This was a very remarkable incident, a division to ])romote strength and 
 accomplish in harmony. ‘There is that scattereth and yet increaseth.’ Would 
 that all new parishes formed as the residt of division had been organized in 
 the same spirit. 
 
 these j)reliminaries l)eing com])leted, the convention then proceeded to an 
 election and as a result the Rev. Stephen Elliott, Jr., jvrofessor of the Evi¬ 
 dences of Christianity and of Sacred Literature in the College of South Caro- 
 
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lina, was unanimously nominated by the clergy and unanimously confirmed 
 by the laity. Bishop Elliott was consecrated in Christ Church, Savannah, on 
 Feb. 28, 1841, by Bishops Meade of Virginia, Ives of North Carolina and 
 Gadsden of South Carolina, and presided at his first convention in Christ 
 Church, Macon, on May 3, 1841. 
 
 “Of the character and ability, the devotion and labors of Bishop Elliott 
 it is not necessary to speak, ‘He being dead yet speaketh.’ His fame still 
 abides in the diocese and in the whole Church. Of distinguished lineage, with a 
 handsome and impressive appearance, with a mind richly endowed and stored 
 with large learning, a disposition benign and gracious, a temper patient and 
 well poised, he was naturally a leader among his fellows, and he gave himself 
 and all that he liad without stint to the Church. 
 
 “'I'he result of his early labors manifested itself in the establishment of 
 new congregations among the scattered Church folk. In 1850 there were 
 eighteen clergy at work, 874 communicants were reported and eighty-eight 
 ])eople confirmed—the ratio between population and communicants being re¬ 
 duced to one in 1,036. In that year we find congregations reporting in 
 Milledgeville, Marietta, Montpelier, Athens, Darien, Glynn county, Rome, St. 
 Mary's, Cass county, Atlanta, Talbotton and among the negroes on the Ogee- 
 chee river. Missionary work was also being carried on in Lexington, Wash¬ 
 ington and Petersburg and among the plantations on the Savannah river. I 
 wish I could take time to read copious extracts from the Bishop’s addresses 
 for it is in them that are recorded what they call now-a-days “the human 
 interest stories’—the romance of the Bisho])’s work and travels. 
 
 “Like all other human efforts there was experiment with alternating suc¬ 
 cess and failure. Some of the plantings survive to this day and some failed 
 and are forgotten. But throughout it all there was courage and patience and 
 faith and love. 
 
 “In one of the Bishop’s addresses he speaks of the ‘period of gloom and 
 almost hopelessness, every new parish must encounter and overcome.’ ‘Upon 
 the first introduetion of the Church into any neighborhood,’ he writes, ‘its 
 novelty, the education of the clergy, the desire of having an edifice that may 
 ornament the rising town, the hope of attracting settlers by the introduction 
 of a form of worship most current among the rich and educated of the land, 
 gather around it a number of adherents who are seeking their own and not the 
 things of Jesus Christ.’ But then the scene changes; ‘the novelty is past, the 
 worldly objects are attained, false friends fall away, persecution begins its 
 bitter work’ .... and then comes ‘the struggle of faith and endurance.’ 
 And the struggle of faith and endurance is still on and will continue, but let 
 us share the Bishop’s faith and hope, when he says ‘if her ministers and 
 members are true to themselves, the struggle ends but in one way, the com¬ 
 plete triuin})h of the Church.’ 
 
 EFFORT TO ESTABLISH SCHOOL 
 
 “1 can only refer to the great Bishop’s heroic effort to maintain a C hurch 
 school for girls at Montpelier, near Macon. It had encouraging success at 
 first. It did a great work for the Church. I have known personally some 
 
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of the faithful women who were edueated there in secular knowledge, Chris¬ 
 tian ])iety and Church loyalty. To its success Bishop Elliott contributed 
 much of his time and labor, most of his means, his great personality and his 
 loving zeal. 
 
 “But in the terms of worldly success it finally failed. Just another one, of 
 whieh there have been so many in our Church. 
 
 “It is impossible not to mention Bishop Elliott’s intimate connections with 
 a movement which we must recognize to have been probably the most impor¬ 
 tant and statesmanlike enterprise undertaken by the Chureh in the South be¬ 
 fore the war and none more so since, the founding of the University of the 
 South. The three distinguished men whose names are most closely identified 
 with that enterprise, were Bishoj^s Otey of Tennessee, Polk of I>ouisiana and 
 our own Elliott. Three men of great vision and power, each by his qualities 
 complementing the others. The first allusion which I find in the convention 
 addresses of the Bishop is in 1858 in which he says that on July 4, of the 
 previous year, ‘in pursuance to a resolution come to during the session of the 
 General Convention of 1856,’ he attended a meeting of bishops, elergy and laity 
 on Lookout Mountain, ‘for the pur}K)se of organizing a Southern L'niversity.’ 
 
 “In 1851) he served with Bishop Polk as conunissioners to canvass the dio- 
 eeses to procure an endowment for the university. They began at New Or¬ 
 leans, and from the encouragement they received from the planters of the 
 Mississippi valley they believed that three millions of dollars could—with 
 time, labor and ])atience, be raised in the ten dioceses for the purpose. 
 
 “In 1859 and 18(10 the same two bishops prepared and submitted to the 
 Board of Trustees ‘the })lan of the inner life of the University’ and it was eon- 
 fidently ex])ected that the plans would be rapidly consummated and the school 
 opened. But alas! what was so wisely planned and so ably prosecuted and 
 so nearly successful went down as did so many other plans in the tragic 
 ruins of the war of 18()l-()5. After peace came, however, other brave hearts 
 laid anew, in j^overty but in faith and hope, the foundations of the University, 
 whieh lives now, a heritage to us from the noble souls who planned it, that we 
 may with like courage and fidelity maintain and strengthen it as an enduring 
 monument to their wisdom and unselfish service to nation and Chureh. 
 
 “The ])eriod of the war had its tragie record in Church as well as in State. 
 'I'lirough storm and tempest of strife and bloodshed the Church in the diocese 
 lived and carried on its ministry of praise and service to the stricken souls 
 at home and to the well and the injured and dying souls at the front. But 
 time fails to dwell upon the details. 
 
 “Bisho}) Elliott and Bishop Polk as the senior Bisho])s of the dioceses in 
 the Confederacy ‘took it upon themselves’ as they said, to address a letter 
 to their right reverend brethern calling for a meeting of bishops, clergy and 
 laity to consider the duty of the hour, and this meeting led to tlve organiza¬ 
 tion of the General Council of the Protestant E])iscopal Church in the Con¬ 
 federate States of America. A first meeting was held in Montgomery, Ala., 
 on .July J, 18()2, and the first General Council assembled in Augusta, in this 
 
Church, on Oct. 16, of the same year. Bishop Elliott being then the' Senior 
 Bishop presided at this convention and was its moving spirit, writing also the 
 first and only pastoral letter, issued by the House of Bishops. 
 
 The war ended, the two churches, North and South, were immediately 
 united in General Convention in 1865, because both in North and South the 
 sense of unity and fellowship was stronger than the sense of estrangement 
 and the bitterness engendered by war. And tor that we. Churchmen, can 
 never be thankful enough to our God and Saviour, and to those noble men 
 who under Him sacrificed their natural feelings and brought it about. 
 
 “Among the distressing consequences of this war, undoubtedly was the 
 death of Bishop Elliott, who on Dec. 21, 1868, suddenly fell asleep, in the sixty- 
 first year of his age in the prime of his intellectual and spiritual maturity. 
 
 ‘Turing the war the confirmations reported were in relation to the num¬ 
 ber of communicants very large, in four years from 1860 to 1864, the latter 
 increasing from 2,088 to 2,674. But in 1866, the confirmations fell off and 
 the communicants had been reduced to 1,923. This was possibly due to 
 the discouraged condition of the social and industrial life of the people and 
 may be, also to the inevitable slump which seems to follow all wars. 
 
 “The Rev. John Watrus Beckwith was elected the second Bishop of Georgia 
 in Christ Church, Macon, on May 10, 1867, and he was consecrated in St. 
 John’s Church, Savannah, on Tuesday, April 2, 1868, by Bishops Green of 
 Mississippi, Atkinson of North Carolina, Wilmer of Alabama, Wilmer of 
 IvOuisiana and Young of Florida. He had been rector of Trinity Church, New 
 Orleans, and had served as a chaplain in the Confederate army on the staff of 
 Gens. Hardee and Polk. He was a young man at the time of his election, 
 being in his thirty-eighth year. 
 
 “He began his episcopate at a time when in the language of Bishop 
 Thompson who preached the Memorial sermon in 1891, ‘The land was covered 
 with the scars of battle, the people were in mourning. There were cities of 
 burned and blackened ruins. Impoverishment was the rule. But with a sol¬ 
 dier’s courage and with a Christian’s faith, and trust in God, he dared the 
 tremendous task of the Episcopate under these circumstances, and equally he 
 dared in all humility and utter lack of self-consciousness to follow and stand 
 in Elliott’s place and do duty for God and His Church. A strong, self-con¬ 
 tained, reticent man he yet was one of the most gentle and pitiful of men. 
 A cold and harsh act was impossible to him. He was a fatherly Bishoj) and 
 meekly ruled as remembering mercy.’ ‘Endowed by nature with a marvelous 
 voice that ranged throughout the whole realm of human emotions,’ Bishop 
 Beckwith’s reading was so impressive that, as I have heard people say, they 
 crowded to hear him read the service which was to them as a benediction. 
 
 “I came to Georgia only a few months before his death and saw him only 
 two or three times. But not only immediately after he passed away but even 
 yet among those who knew him I hear the echo of his eloquence in the pulpit, 
 and his beautiful reading of the service. 
 
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‘‘Among the first S])ecial interests which ap])ealed to the Bisho]) was a 
 lionie for the or])hans of Confederate soldiers to he under the care of a Church 
 sisterhood. The means to accomplish this were furnished him by a Church¬ 
 man of the city of New York, the late William H. A 2 )])leton of the well known 
 publishing house. The Ap])leton Church Hojue at Macon was accordingly 
 built and occu])ied in July, 1871, under the cliarge of Sister Margaret. 'I'liis 
 remarkable woman was assisted in the management and education of the 
 girls by Sister Katherine and Sister Mary. Among the most cheri.shed 
 memories of my life in Georgia are the memories of the friendship of these 
 noble women, the last named of whom still survives. During the e})iscopate 
 of Bishop Beckwith, there was carried through an amendment to the Diocesan 
 law by which all vestrymen were required to be ba])tised and confirmed men. 
 Previous to that apparently it was canonical to elect any man who was ‘a 
 su]q)orter of the gos]:>el,’ as the old charters state it. I am sure that among 
 these vestrymen were many fine and generous men who served in this ca])acity. 
 1 knew some of them. And it nuiy be that in the early history of the Diocese 
 it was ])articularly impossible to secure enough communicants to fill these 
 })ositions. But the manifest irregularity of having men vote in the conven¬ 
 tions and administer the affairs of the CJuirch who were not acknowledged 
 members of it finally under the Bishop's leadershi]) led to the adoption of 
 this ])lain and common sense requirement. 
 
 “When Bishop Beckwith began his e])isco])ate there were 28 clergymen 
 and 2,424 communicants and 19 white ])arishes, and a number of other })laces 
 to which he made visits and in which services were held more or less regularly. 
 Gnfortunately the records are so imperfect that it is impossible to be more 
 accurate. 
 
 “At the end of his episcopate there were 5() parishes and missions reported, 
 and 55 church buildings, 39 clergy and .5,272 commnuicants. In 1870 there 
 was one communicant to 419 peo]>le in the State; and in 1890 one to 348. 
 Bishop Beckwith died in Atlanta on Nov. 23, 1890, in the 59th year of his 
 age and the twenty-third of his episco])ate. 
 
 “It was a year and three months before his successor was consecrated. 
 Bisho}) Nelson was elected at a convention held in St. Paul's Church, Macon, 
 on Nov. 11, 1891. And he was consecrated in St. Luke’s Cathedral, Atlanta, 
 on St. Matthias’ Day, Feb. 24, 1892, by Bishops Quintard of Tennessee, Howe 
 of South Carolina, and Lyman of North ('arolina, five other bisho])s being 
 present and assisting in the laying-on-of-hands. 
 
 “Many of those here knew Bishoj) Nelson, foi’ he was our Bisho]). He 
 came to us in the full vigor of his manhood. With robust physical health 
 ;md mental vigor, a stalwart and handsome presence and a zeal and industry 
 in service that knew no limit, he gave himself to the Church in the Diocese 
 in missionary labors. From the North to the South and from the East to the 
 West he went incessantly, establishing missions, building churches and preach¬ 
 ing the gos})el of Christ and His Church. The best proof of his industry and 
 zeal is found in the fact that in fifteen years the work of the Diocese, especiallv 
 in the number of churches which must be visited and sustained bv his en¬ 
 couragement and assistance outgrew even his capacity for labor. 
 
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“He was especially interested in and energetic in carrying on and enlarging 
 the work among the negroes, which had been the concern of both his ])rede- 
 cessors. If there were any mitigation of the evil of human slavery, it was 
 found in the solicitude and care which all of the Bishops of Cieorgia evinced 
 in their efforts to minister the Gospel to the black people, both in slavery times 
 and after freedom. Slavery among our forbears in itself not a Christian in¬ 
 stitution, was, however, permeated by Christian feeling and softened by the 
 Christian conscience of the Church’s hisho})s and priests and by devout lay 
 people, whose ownership was felt to be a solemn trust. And if we who 
 have the responsible trust of ]^ropagating the Church's mission in Georgia in 
 our day are faithful to that trust, we should permit no changed conditions in 
 the relations between the races, to make us indifferent to this duty. 
 
 “In 1907 the Diocese was divided and the diocese of Atlanta set off’ of 
 which Bishop Nelson elected to become the diocesan. At the time of the 
 division, there were 54 clergymen on the roll, and 8,524 communicants and 
 439 people were confirmed, an increase since 1892 of 2,252. 
 
 “Bishoj) Nelson died Feb. 13, 1917, in the sixty-fifth year of his age, his 
 e])iscopate having lasted Just 25 years. 
 
 “I must leave it to some later chronicle to tell the story of the last 15 
 years, since the Diocese of Georgia has betn reduced by th.e se])arati()n 
 of our brothers in the northern part of our State. The growth of the two 
 Dioceses is baldly stated by the fact that in 1921, when the last available re- 
 ])orts were made, there was 75 clergymen and 11,057 communicants and 082 
 persons confirmed. The estimated ])opulation of that year may be said to 
 have been 2,925,800, and the ratio between the ]) 0 ]mlation and communi¬ 
 cants would be about one in 240. This is not indicative of great relative 
 strength as a religious communion. But at any rate compared to the ratio 
 in 1823 of one to 3,000 it is an evidence of growth, which may indeed cause us 
 to take courage for the future. 
 
 “It would have been im})OSsible to have made s])ecial mention of all the 
 faithful clergy and lay ])eo})le who during the century have made their con¬ 
 tribution of loving service and faithful labor to the Ghurch’s life and growth. 
 Nor is it possible even to mention some of them by name. But I have not for¬ 
 gotten them. Without a faithful laity and clergy a Bishop as leader is hel]ffess. 
 'I'he record of the juist is therefore the record of their lives. Their names 
 and cures are hidden in the dusty /journals of the })ast, but better they were 
 written in the Lamb's Book of Life. As the men of 1823 said in their ad¬ 
 dress: ‘They (and all who follow them) were engaged in a work for which 
 posterity would bless their memory.’ We do bless their memory. We thank 
 God for them and we pray, first that God’s ]>eace and light may be eternally 
 theirs and second that we too in our day and generation being also faithful 
 unto death, may pass on to our ])osterity, a richer heritage than we have re¬ 
 ceived and may likewise inherit the Crown of Life. For if we are faithful 
 we may confidently believe that the Lord our God will be with us as He was 
 with our fathers.’’ 
 
I 
 
 The View Plan & Situation of the Church & Church Yard of Augusta 
 in Ceorgia Erected A D 1741) and Humbly Dedicated to the Hon¬ 
 orable the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America 
 by the Committee appointed for erecting thereof. 
 
 The Frame of the Church is of Wood So Strong that it will last for many years; between 
 the Studs is a Wall of Clay Eight Inches thick Supported in the center of that Clay with 
 pieces of Wood three inches thick let into the Studs by a Groove. 
 
 The outside is rough 
 
 cast with Dime and Gravil appearing like Stone. The inside Plaister’d white wash d and 
 arch’d the roof Supported by two Columns as per Plan which we propose to have 
 handsomely ornamented. We do, likewise, when we are able, intend to underprop 
 the Church with Prick as it appears by the Plan but at present it is only Supported 
 with I.ogs of lasting oak, which is the only part that does not answer the View. 
 
 24 
 
GEORGIA CENTENNIAL PAGEANT 
 THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 
 
 (Ada])te(l From The Augusta Herald, Ajrril 24-, 1923) 
 
 One of the most beautiful and elaborate spectacles ever witnessed in Au¬ 
 gusta was the historical pageant conducted under the auspices of the De¬ 
 partment of Religious Education of the Diocese of Georgia Monday after¬ 
 noon in St. Paul’s church yard. This pageant of the Georgia (,’entennial Con¬ 
 vention holding its sessions now in Augusta, was designed to show the historic 
 continuity of the C’hurch from the Day of Pentecost down to the jrresent time, 
 and was esjrecially interesting to native Augustans by reason of the fact that 
 old St. Paul’s held such a vital ])osltion, not alone in Church history but in 
 that of national history as well. 
 
 There could scarcely have been found a more ideal location for the pre¬ 
 sentation of a pageant of this nature than St. Paul’s church yard with its un¬ 
 dulating green sod, its beautiful grou})ing of fine old trees Just now bursting 
 into the tender green of new leafage, and its atmosphere of peace that the 
 proximity of a church and old graveyard seem inevitably to convey; and 
 added to this the fact that it was upon this very spot that some of the scenes 
 of the pageant really had been enacted many years ago made the spectacle 
 doubly interesting to all who witnessed it. 
 
 Within the churchyard probably one thousand or more })ersons had gathered 
 in anticipation of the event which they had been awaiting for several weeks, 
 and when the magnetic voice of Rev. W. W. Memminger of Atlanta, reader 
 for the pageant, sounded strong and clear across the open s})aces, and the 
 ])layers began to advance, their interest in the proceedings manifested itself 
 almost to a breathless pitch. 
 
 The opening tableau in Group I. represented the Day of Pentecost, and 
 showed the Twelve Apostles, the ^^irgin Mary, the Holy Women, and the 
 Christian Brethren, kneeling to receive the Holy Ghost, and the scene was 
 made most effective by its groupings, and the long flowing costumes of the 
 day. 
 
 The next scene represented St. Paul at Athens and showed the Apostle ar¬ 
 guing with some of the Greek philoso])hers, and winning a hearing for Chris¬ 
 tianity. 
 
 Following next were two character scenes representing St. Justin Martyr 
 and St. Chrysostom. 
 
 'I'he next scene which represented the defiance of St. Ambrose to the 
 Em])eror I'heodosius, when the latter demanded to enter the church after 
 he had caused the deaths of some 7,000 inhabitants, was very capably rendered 
 and was one of the best scenes in this episode. 
 
 'I’hen followed more character scenes, one showing the three British 
 Bisho})s at Arles, then a scene of St. Monica and her son, St. Augustine, 
 after which came St. Jerome, who translated the Bible from Hebrew and 
 Greek into Latin. 
 
riic next seene, rt])resentinfr St. C'olomha at Iona, followed by six hlaeU- 
 eowled monks, in wliieli St. Coloinba knelt to lead them in ])rayer, was trnly 
 realistie in its ])ortrayal. C’ominfi: next were rt])resented St. Gregory and 
 St. An^nstine with a mimher of little hare-foot ehildren as the vietims of 
 the slave market in Rome under the eare of a slave driver with a thonged 
 whip. These were the first fair-haired ehildren Gregory had ever seen and 
 he impiired whenee they eanie. .Vt the re])ly, “They are Angles,” he re]>lied, 
 “Xo, Angels,” and straightway made ])lans to send missionaries to England 
 headed hy St. Augustine. 'I'he early life of the venerable Bed 2 who is known 
 espeeially for his eeelesiastical history and translation of large parts of the 
 (duireh serviees, was next shown, and the flute-like voice of the little choir 
 hoy I'ose sweet and clear through the soft afternoon air as he sang the Gloria 
 taught him hy his choir master. 
 
 Other espeeially good character representations were those of St. Boni¬ 
 face; King Alfred, regal in his crown and purple robes of state, during whose 
 reign the Church enjoyed a great revival, and St .Anselm in the gorgeous 
 robes and high ])urple hat of an abbot. 
 
 'rhe next seene ])ortraying the Crusaders was very spectacular, when the 
 leader of the Crusaders advanced on a beautiful white horse, surrounded hy 
 his men-at-arms in armor and drawn lances. The first e})isode closed with 
 the characterization'of St. Francis of Assisi and then Wycliffe and his poor 
 Preachers. 
 
 'I'he second e])isode portrayed the incident when England repudiated the 
 Pa})al supremacy under the reign of Henry GUI. 'Phis was a very elabor¬ 
 ate scene showing all the dignitaries of court including the King and Queen, 
 and the ladies-in-waiting down to the heralds, the pages and other attendants, 
 besides Bishops and other dignitaries of the Church. 
 
 Group II. showed the historical landing of the early settlers at Jamestown 
 when they were met by the Indians, and the Holy Communion was immediate¬ 
 ly celebrated hy the Rev. Robert Hunt. 
 
 Grou]) HI. told of the coming of the Church to the Georgia colony and 
 opened with the landing of General Oglethorj^e upon Georgia soil and his 
 reception hy the Indians who made a peace treaty with him; and 'ronio-chi- 
 chi, one of their chiefs presented a hufi'alo robe to him. Ouee-ka-chumpa 
 ordered his braves to bring gifts of skins; the Rev. Henry Herbert addressed 
 the assembly; John Wesley, 'romo-chi-chi and ()glethor])e had a conference; 
 and John Wesley organized the first Sunday school in the world at Christ 
 Churc-h, Savannah. 
 
 'Hie scene where John Wesley called the little children and taught them their 
 Sunday school lessons was exce])tionally j^retty and appealing, and the scene 
 representing Charles Wesley teaching the savages on St. Simon’s Island was 
 also most eft’ective. 
 
 'I'he next scenes in Grou]) 1\'. were jieculiarly interesting to mend)ers of 
 the locality, depicting the organization of old St. Paul’s. 'I’he scenes re])re- 
 sented a gathering upon the town common—where Broad Street is—for the 
 
jnirpose of petitioning England to send over a minister to eare for the 
 s])iritual needs of the little floek. Colonial eostinnes were worn in this seene 
 and were most effeetive and becoming. 
 
 'Fhe climax to the pageant - or rather the highest point of interest to a 
 vast number of those watching it—was the arrival of the Rev. Jonathan ('opp 
 from England in answer to the petition of the Augusta Colonists, which ])art 
 was most approju’iately enacted in the person of Rev. G. Sherwood Whitney, 
 the beloved rector of the present St. Paul's. When he appeared in the 
 (piaint long-tailed shawl-collared suit of black, with his stove-pipe hat, his 
 high stock, huge shoe buckles, and carrying a carpet bag, his ])arishioners 
 nearly went wild with enthusiasm, and burst into prolonged applause, de¬ 
 spite the fact they were requested not to do so at the pageant. And with 
 his arrival the organization of St. Paul’s was perfected. 
 
 J'he next episode represented the surrender of Fort Cornwallis—upon 
 the site of which the pageant actually took place—to the Americans by the 
 British after-the tide of battle had wavered over this section from time to 
 time. The contrasting uniforms of the opposing soldiers were very effective 
 as well as the surrender of the British commander to the American commander. 
 
 Episode III. of this group showed the first visit of a Bishop to Augusta, 
 and a very pretty scene representing the confirmation o^ a large group of 
 \ oung girls and boys, was one of the very lovely ones in the pageant when 
 the little girls fluttered in like white butterflies in the old fashioned costumes 
 and the hoys in quaint black suits. 
 
 E])isode depicted the organization of the Diocese in 1823 and carried 
 it through the sending of the Rev. I.ot Jones to Macon; the election of Bishop 
 Elliott as first Bishop of Georgia, and concluded with' a most effective tableau 
 representing the differences between the soldiers of the blue and the gray 
 transformed into brotherly love under the ministration of Bishop Beckwith. 
 
 The final tableau ])resented the past and present in the Church’s history 
 and was represented by three beautiful girls, the spirit of America carrying 
 a huge American flag, the spirit of the State of Georgia carrying the State 
 flag, the Spirit of the Church between them carrying the Cross. These were 
 augmented by the entire pageant cast in a l)eautiful ensemble when all pre¬ 
 sent joined in singing the Doxology. 
 
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