A master builder, being the life and letters of Henry Yates Satterlee, first bishop of Washington . mere forced collections;and next, in making each Christian stand apart fromhis or her family relations and face an individual duty,this method by its pledge and its regularity enforcingespecially the thought of Christian stewardship whetherof one talent or of ten. The result was, as he foresaw,successful in both diredlions — both benefadlors andbeneficiaries profited. The broader interests of the Church were cared forby the General Missionary Department with its variouscommittees. Calvary, when
A master builder, being the life and letters of Henry Yates Satterlee, first bishop of Washington . mere forced collections;and next, in making each Christian stand apart fromhis or her family relations and face an individual duty,this method by its pledge and its regularity enforcingespecially the thought of Christian stewardship whetherof one talent or of ten. The result was, as he foresaw,successful in both diredlions — both benefadlors andbeneficiaries profited. The broader interests of the Church were cared forby the General Missionary Department with its variouscommittees. Calvary, when Dr. Satterlee assumedcharge, was insular in its outlook. Almost his firstthought was, while preserving and developing its co-herence as a parish and fostering the family spirit whichwas so pronounced a feature of his former charge, tobroaden its vision and enlarge its sense of was through the General Missionary Departmentthat he accomplished his purpose. Foreign and domesticmissions, work among Indians and Negroes, receivedintelligent and sympathetic attention. The Committee. THE REV. HENRY YATES SATTERLEE, Redor of Calvary Church 1892] STONE UPON STONE 121 on Missions of the Archdeaconry of New York wasnotably adlive and successful. It developed that intimatepersonal touch between the free and the imprisoned,the privileged and the needy, the well and the sick,the citizen and the institutionalized, that has been oneof the most potent forces throughout the country inthe reconstrudion of, and change of temper in, our char-ities, philanthropies and penal institutions. It was amember of the Committee on Missions within the Arch-deaconry of New York who gave the Chapel of Christthe Consoler to Bellevue Hospital. The people took their Redor at his word. Thoughthe East Side work received the equipment needed asbeing of prime importance, the beautifying of the parishchurch and the building of a parish house were heldin abeyance. Nevertheless year by year Dr. Sa
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