- 8 May. Germans surrendered, leading to the end of World War II in Europe.
- June. Rector P. E. Osgood preached his last sermon at Emmanuel.
- 15 July. The Rev. Dr. H. Robert Smith, formerly of Grace Church, Newton MA, accepted the position of Minister-in-Charge to serve until a new rector could be called.
- 6 & 9 August. US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, leading to Japanese surrender a week later.
- October. After many years in charge of our Church School, Elizabeth Varney departed, and Nancy Currier took over.
- 28 November. The vestry assigned the church’s reading rights at the Boston Athenæum to rector-elect, The Rev. Robert Gifford Metters. For more about his tenure, please see the chapter on him in Emmanuel Church, 1860-1960: The First Hundred Years.
Tag Archives: Sunday school
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.
The Rt. Rev. Dr. Alexander Hamilton Vinton (1852-1911), namesake and nephew of our second rector, became Bishop of Western Massachusetts.
1890
Feb. 8. Under the direction of the Rev. Walter E. Smith, Chapel of the Ascension moved to 1906 Washington St. and 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. At that time its Sunday School had 15 teachers and 200 registered students, and there were 175 congregants.