Sermon on the Mount by Jan Brueghel the Elder, 1598, Getty Museum, CA.

The Reverend David Boase, Celebrant

January 29

The Fourth Sunday After The Epiphany

Fr. David Boase, Celebrant

+The Holy Eucharist+

Rite I 8 a.m. | Rite II 10 a.m.

Masks are optional.

8:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist, Rite One

8:30 - 11:30 a.m. - child care in the nursery.

9:00 a.m. - Choir Rehearsal | Confirmation/Reception Class

9:15 - Adults - Morning Prayer & conversation in Pearson Hall

10:00 a.m. - Church School for Children, Lower Level

10 a.m. service in person & streamed via Facebook Live

Coffee hour following the 10 o'clock service.

Masks are optional.

Offerings



• Online: standrews-edwardsville.com/stewardship/

• Mail: Send your offering/check to St. Andrew's Treasurer, 406 Hillsboro Avenue, Edwardsville 62025.

The Week of January 29

• Monday through Friday - Daily 8 a.m. morning prayer and 5:30 p.m. evening prayer in the chapel.
• Friday, February 3 - 7 a.m., AA Meeting in Pearson Hall.

Looking Ahead

• Friday-Saturday, February 11, Winter Book Sale
• Thursday-Friday-Saturday, March 2, 3, 4 - 2023 Quilt Guild Show
• Sunday, March 26, Bishop Burgess visits St. Andrew's.

2023 Quilt Show

March 2, 3, 4

(Thursday - Friday - Saturday)



Mark Your Calendar! The 2023 Quilt Show is just a few weeks away. Entries need to be registered by February 17 and dropped off by February 26. Entries can be new or older quilts -- traditional or modern, or unique fabric art. Some quilts may be designated for sale.

Show hours will be 10 to 4 daily in Pearson Hall and the nave. Demonstrations and presentations of Quilts of Valor will occur on specific days. Admission is $5 per day.

Click below to print out the show brochure or entry registration form. Contact Liz Edwards or LaVernn Wilson if you have questions.

Signing up for Candles and Flowers

Since a sign-up sheet for parishioners wanting to honor or remember family or friends through the gift of flowers or candles for the altar did not get to every table at the Annual Meeting, Kathryn Biarkis has posted a copy next to the soda machine at the back entrance to the parish hall.

The Flower Guild suggests a gift of $25 for those wishing to sign up for one Sunday’s flowers. For the Altar Guild there is no suggested amount. Any contribution is welcome.

The names of honorees or those memorialized will be listed in the church bulletin. Parishioners can also sign up online at SignUp Genius. Link.

McClinton's Work on the John Howard Payne Papers Recently Published!

In November (2022) the University of Nebraska Press published--in three volume sets--the John Howard Payne Papers that I/Rowena McClinton transcribed, edited, and annotated. The original documents, some 3,000 plus pages, are housed in the Newberry Library, Chicago. 

In 1911 Edward E. Ayer, a railroad magnate, gave the Newberry the John Howard Payne Papers, a handwritten collection of manuscripts pertaining to multiple Indian Nations, in particular the Cherokee Nation. Payne, originally from New York City, lived in the nineteenth century and had a successful career as an actor and play writer in London and Paris for 19 years. 

When he returned to the US in 1834, he became disturbed over the plight of southeastern Indian Nations. In 1830 the US government had ordered the removal of 75,000 to 100,000 Indians trans-Mississippi River west. His moral compass guided him to defend their rights to remain in their ancestral domains.    

Payne also collected handwritten documents of multiple missionaries ministering to Plains Indian tribes. One of the chapters describes medical doctor James Price Evans’s sojourn among the Sioux. Dr. Evans is our organist Henry Evans’s great, great, great uncle!

-Rowena McClinton

Parishioner and Professor Emerita of History, SIUE

Church History

Of Natives and Nuptials:

The Career of Bishop William Hare

by Jim Weingartner

Born in 1838 in Princeton, New Jersey and educated at the University of Pennsylvania, William Hobart Hare was ordained an Episcopal priest in 1862, although he does not seem to have attended seminary. Like many post-Civil War Easterners, Hare moved west. In 1873, was elected Missionary Bishop to the Native Americans of an area including part of the Dakota Territory, and ten years later was consecrated Missionary Bishop of South Dakota. Hare saw himself as a shepherd to the Lakota people, built schools and churches for what he believed to be their benefit, and made a vain effort to save the Black Hills, sacred to the Lakota, from White encroachment. When Hare’s episcopate ended in 1909, half of all Native Americans in South Dakota were allegedly Episcopalians.

According to the Episcopal Dictionary, Hare “worked only among the American Indians.” But that is an incomplete appraisal of his episcopate. He was also a crusader against White divorce in his diocese.

Sioux Falls in southeastern South Dakota was the site of Bishop Hare’s St. Augusta Cathedral, now Calvary Episcopal Cathedral. Due to liberal divorce laws—which included a short residency requirement and a wide range of offenses for which divorces could be granted—and a compliant judge, it was also a mecca for those seeking to dissolve their marriages. As author April White describes in her recent book, Divorce Colony, well-heeled Easterners were able to satisfy the required 90-day South Dakota residency while residing in the comfort of the luxurious Cataract House hotel, which prospered, as did Sioux Falls’ lawyers and shopkeepers.

The “divorce industry” as Hare contemptuously called it was economically beneficial to Sioux Falls but an abomination to the bishop, who railed against it. Hare condemned South Dakota’s permissive divorce laws as “a national scandal” that was resulting in the “disruption and destruction of the family.” The quick divorces and equally speedy remarriages which often followed were in his mind little short of polygamy. He wrote to his sister-in-law that “I despise people who trifle with marriage relations so intensely that the moral nausea produces nausea of the stomach. I have a continual bad taste in my mouth.” (Continue reading at this link.)

Parish Notes

• Coffee hour signups for 2023 are available so think about signing up for a date that is good for you now at this link.

• Gifts to the Glen Ed Pantry - Funding to provide food for needy families is an ongoing challenge. Please consider sending a check payable to the Pantry at 125 5th Avenue, Edwardsville, IL 62025, or donate online at this link to help our area families during this very cold weather!

St. Andrew's Communications

Communications Coordinator and Newsletter Editor-in-Chief, Marian Smithson

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