- 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 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.
Monthly Archives: February 2013
1909
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Thanks to the late Craig Smith for this image of Priscilla as a girl, c1915.
7 May. Benefactor of our cantata program, Priscilla Rawson (Young) was born in Bayside, NYC to Clementine Herschel of Holyoke MA & Hobart Rawson of Cincinnati OH. She was named for her Mayflower ancestor Priscilla Mullins Alden, who in turn was the namesake of Priscilla, now thought to have been the amanuensis of Paul the Apostle and author of the Epistle to the Hebrews [1]. See also 1939, 1942, 1971, 1973, 1994 & 2000.
- Elwood Worcester and Samuel McComb published The Christian Religion as a Healing Power: A Defense and Exposition of the Emmanuel Movement (NY: Moffat, Yard), full text. It is an addendum to their Religion and Medicine: The Moral Control of Nervous Disorders (NY: Moffat, Yard, 1908), full text.
- Parishioner Ernest Jacoby started a group for alcoholic men with special emphasis on fellowship as a path to recovery. It eventually moved from our basement and continued into the 1930s as the Jacoby Club. The first meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous in Boston was held in 1940 at the Club, then at 115 Newbury Street.
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Entrance of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The first section of parishioner Guy Lowell‘s design for the Museum of Fine Arts was completed. Lowell (1870-1927) also designed the Charles River Dam (built in 1910) and the Esplanade from the Charlesgate to the dam. For more about him and his other architectural achievements, please see Wikipedia.
1. Ruth Hoppin, Priscilla’s Letter: Finding the Author of the Epistle to the Hebrews. Ft. Bragg CA: Lost Coast Press, 2000.
1908
In response to a devastating fire in Chelsea, Emmanuel Church rented one of the few houses left standing to provide care for the homeless. The Emmanuel Relief Station offered food, clothing, and medical care for the wounded. The church arranged for medical personnel, instruments, and supplies. The house was also used for the care of women during and after childbirth.
Religion and Medicine: The Moral Control of Nervous Disorders by Worcester, Samuel McComb and Isador A. Coriat, an early psychoanalyst, was published by Moffat, Yard.
Worcester published a series of six articles about the Emmanuel Movement in the Ladies Home Journal (Oct. 1908 – March 1909).
1907
Ruth Baylies Schulze (1907-1986) by Alfred Jonniaux
Walter Cabot Baylies (1862-1936)
Walter Cabot Baylies became senior warden. He purchased the buildings at 11-13 Newbury St. for our Parish House. His wife Charlotte (Lottie) Upham, daughter of founding member George Upham, gave birth to their daughter Ruth. They resided at 5 Commonwealth Ave., which now is the Boston Center for Adult Education.
See also: Jim Cronin, “BCAE Mansion Built for Textile Merchant, The Boston Courant 13(11):1, Dec. 1, 2007.
1906
Camp Lowell was established by the shores of Lake Annabessacook in Winthrop ME to provide a summer camp for the choir boys of Emmanuel and Church of the Redeemer, Chestnut Hill. Boys from our mission Church of the Ascension also attended for two weeks in its first summer. The camp, which had sleeping accomodations for 28 campers and 2 staff, was named in memory of Charles Lowell, late treasurer of Emmanuel. Its trusttees were Charles H. Kip, John Lowell, and William Blodgett. John Collins Bossidy famously toasted, “Boston, the land of the bean and the cod / Where Lowells talk only to Cabots / and Cabots talk only to God,” but it was no doubt belied by the fellowship of Emmanuel, where Walter Cabot Baylies picked up Charles Lowell’s baton and served as warden from 1907-1935.
Our Girls Choir
1905
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. 
1904
- Leighton Parks was called to St. Bartholomew’s, New York City.
The Rev. Dr. Elwood Worcester
- The Rev. Dr. Elwood Worcester was called as our fourth rector. He had received a PhD. from the University of Leipzig, where he studied psychology under Wilhelm Wundt and Gustav Fechner. Upon his arrival he started the Emmanuel Class for Tuberculosis, which became the basis for what the press named the Emmanuel Movement.
- Architect Arthur Lawrence Rotch became junior warden.
For more about the Worcester years please see the chapter on him in Emmanuel Church, 1860-1960: The First Hundred Years.
For more about the Emmanuel Movement please search our site or see Timeline entries: 1905, 1909 & 1919.
1903
June 26. Andrew Gray Weeks died. Having been born in Portland, Maine, in 1823 and confirmed by Dr. F. Dan Huntington, he served on our vestry (1879-82 & 1884) and as junior warden from 1885 until his death. Having become a successful merchant, Andrew was generous to our church and those less fortunate. In 1905 his sister Harriet (Mrs. Silas Reed) Anthony gave in his memory the playground for the Emmanuel Memorial House, which his widow Alice gave. She also paid for a brass memorial plaque for their son Kenneth, who fell at Givenchy, France, in 1915. 
1902
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.
1901
Our Building Committee reported expending $16K to expand the seating capacity of the Church of the Ascension (our mission in the South End) to hold more that 565. Vestry member Cranmore N. Wallace (1834-1918) reported on cost overrides for the project in the Year Book of Emmanuel Church.