Our hope is in the Church Divinity School to be ready for all wise readjustments to meet results in our Province.

The clergy and laity of the Province and all friends of the School have been asked to have this at heart and on anniversaries of St. Luke's Day, its birthday, and at other times to remember the Divinity School with its Prayer published with this, and in its effort to find and to teach "Jesus Christ, the Way, the Truth and the Life.” A PRAYER FOR THE SCHOOL

Almighty God, Who hast purchased to Thyself an Universal Church by the precious blood of Thy dear Son, and therein hast appointed the ministry of reconciliation; we beseech Thee mercifully to bless all institutions earnestly contending for the Faith once delivered unto the Saints, and especially this Church Divinity School and all its members and benefactors, and to establish it to all generations to Thy honor and glory. Bring to it whatever it may need in endowment, in library, in instruction, and in all other ways to carry its good designs into effect. To those to whom are committed the duties of administration and instruction, give Thy Heavenly Grace, that they may perceive what things they ought to do and may also have strength and power faithfully to fulfill the same. And to those who are here to be trained up for the sacred ministry of Thy Church give an awful sense of the honor and danger of the trust to which they are to be called; endue them with sound minds and moderated desires; fill them with a spirit of holy zeal and self-denial; and grant that they may so faithfully labor in their day and generation that when they are called to give an account of their stewardship they may not be found unprofitable servants. Grant this, O Lord, for Jesus Christ's sake, our Mediator and Redeemer. Amen.

From the earliest student:

I have been asked, I presume because I am the pioneer student of the Church Divinity School, to give some reminiscences of the early days.

There is one incident connected with the opening service that is worth recording. The School was opened on St. Luke's Day, 1893, without a single student being in residence, and an offering was taken for the Divinity School in Tokio, Japan. I had planned to arrive in time for the service, but in journeying from Pasadena—and perhaps it is worthy of noting just here, that of the six men who made up the first class to complete the full course, all came from what is now the Diocese of Los Angeles-my train was late, and I arrived just as the service was concluded. In this respect the opening of our Divinity School was not unlike the launching of a similar school at Cuddesdon in the Diocese of Oxford. On that occasion the sermon was preached by Bishop Selwyn of New Zealand from the text, "A little one shall become a thousand." The number of students at that time was exactly one, who was afterwards known as "the little one." But that "little one" while still hale and hearty had the pleasure of shaking hands with the thousandth one to register. While our Divinity School has not been blessed to that extent, others will, no doubt, be able to tell the story of how our graduates have multiplied and gone forth, so that today “Their sound has gone out into all lands, and their voices to the ends of the world.”

Those early days were days of small things both as regards students and buildings. I know that they were days of plain living, even if it does not become me to say, that they were marked by high thinking. The idea of the Founder was not to open a Theological College Subscription with a Flourish of Trumpets and a Building, but rather to let that material garb grow up around the actual spiritual-educational work, which was first organized. Body was to follow upon spirit. And so it did. When I think of the manner of our living in that first building, and of the real hardships which it sometimes entailed; and of the Chapel, which was Chapel, library and lecture room combined, and of which it could truthfully be said, that there was nothing about it,

either architecturally or ecclesiologically to attract, or impress with reverence, or lead us to remember it with attachment; and then compare such with the splendid buildings already erected on the Cathedral block, and which in God's own appointed time will be completed, I appreciate how the idea of our Founder has been realized, and that body has followed upon spirit.

But my recollections are all of the San Mateo days. It was an ideal spot for a Divinity School. And my four years at San Mateo, what a host of recollections the words bring back! The time when that enthusiasm hidden, half stifled it may be, yet always stored up in young hearts, was first roused; the awakening of the soul to a vision of an ideal worth living for; the first stirrings of the sense of gratitude to God; the first springing up of the great desire to dedicate his best to God; and the opening consciousness of a growing enthusiasm for humanity, those are the memories that come back today.

I believe that at San Mateo we did realize a social ideal; for the Common Room became that center of social life which is one of the most potent infiuences of a theological school, and of which nothing can take the place; a brotherly spirit of sympathy; of rivalry in good things; of well directed chaff, so good for rubbing off one's corners.

And though today I cannot say that I have the enthusiasm of those early days, yet I would not exchange my solid certainties and firm convictions of today for all the warmer enthusiasm of those San Mateo days; and I can and do, thankfully affirm that that is so, because of the foundation under which God's grace was laid and fostered by the spirituality of the Dean, the patient, loving faithfulness of the Chaplain, and the saintly example and intellect of that young instructor— our senior by only a few years-and who was so soon lost to the School, but who has helped by his memory, and we trust by his unhampered intercessions.

G. M. CUTTING, '97.

CHAPTER XII

GRACE CATHEDRAL

(A reprint from my Address to the Diocesan Convention of 1913.)

'N THE BISHOP'S OFFICE there are three remaining copies, others being burned in the fire that destroyed Grace Church, San Francisco, of fond memory, of

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the Prayer Book of an edition dating back to about the middle of the last century, which had marked on them in large gilt letters "Grace Cathedral." Prophetic as the inscription was, it had stood for nearly forty years a survival of a brief period in the history of Grace Church during which Bishop Kip formally took the Parish Church as his Episcopal Seat while practically acting as the Rector of the Parish at a critical time in its finances. One of the earliest and most studious writers upon an American Cathedral System, the late Hon. James M. Woolworth, LL. D., for many years Chancellor of the Diocese of Nebraska, refers to this as an attempt "made to engraft the Cathedral upon the organization of the Church," and says, "Not long after he was sent out to California, Bishop Kip placed his Episcopal Chair in Grace Church of San Francisco and called that Church his Cathedral. He did this in his right as rector of the Parish and when his incumbency ceased the name Cathedral was dropped. He afterwards held the rectorship of the Church of the Advent and there again set up his Episcopal Seat and gave its edifice the same name and withdrew both when he resigned the position." In another writing Chancellor Woolworth accords to Bishop Kip the explicit credit of his being the first in our American Church to thus actually and formally designate a Cathedral Seat. Whatever earlier thought of the traditional system of the Mother Church may appear in Cathedral aspirations and utterances from our American Churchmen, Chancellor Woolworth and others bearing their witness to it, right here in our Dio

cese and in the Grace Church which was directly antecedent to our Grace Cathedral, was the real Cathedral origin in our national Church. We may ourselves have not fully appraised this fact at its face value, for us locally and for the national Church historically. There certainly is in it a good deal to captivate the sentiment of a California Churchman. And there is a datum to be more widely recognized and honored and accredited to the Pacific Coast in the Cathedraliana now so notably finding vogue throughout the Dioceses and Districts. All our American Church histories now begin with that other initiative in our Diocesan borders, the first service in the English tongue within what constitutes the present boundaries of the United States. That was the first use of the Book of Common Prayer in our country. It is ours to realize that by a striking providence of God, history must record a second event of signal significance as occurring not amid the memorable and continuous Atlantic antecedents of the Church, but on our far Pacific Seaboard. That event was the first use of a Prayer Book with the truly proprietary word "Cathedral" stamped on it in our Grace Church, San Francisco, as the Cathedral Seat of Bishop Kip. A "Double Witness" indeed for the Church it all presents and that in quite another way than that in which the Church was dowered by the epochal book of our first Bishop. On the Seal happily designed by the President of our Standing Committee, the Rev. Dr. Bakewell, and presented to the Cathedral Chapter, there is an episcopal throne with the legend Θεοῦ Χάριτι καθεδ. ἐπισκ.: which we in thanksgiving, if in humility, might freely interpret: By the grace of God the first Cathedral Seat in our National Church.

But through the Cathedra was with that priority so carried into act and embodied in the style "Grace Cathedral" for the building, and in the printed matter of the Congregation as well as in the terminology used in the Convention Journals of the Diocese for the years 1863, 1864, 1865 and 1866, Bishop Kip's references to it and