An Appeal to the World 
 
 for 
 A Chapel in Every Home 
 
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 Wilson, Joseph Robert, 1866- 
 An appeal to the world for < 
 chapel in every home 
 
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An Appeal to the World 
 
 for 
 A Chapel in Every Home 
 
 JOSEPH R. WILSON, LL.B. 
 
 THE INTERNATIONAL PRINTING COMPANY 
 PHILADELPHIA 
 
 1922 
 
Copyright 1922 
 Joseph R. Wilson 
 
DEDICATED 
 TO MY FELLOW MAN 
 
 ADDRESSED TO ALL WHO WORSHIP 
 
 GOD. IRRESPECTIVE OF CREED 
 
 OR DENOMINATION 
 
All humanity is hungering for Religion. Let 
 us make it a permanency in the household. 
 
 "A place for prayer implies a time for it." 
 Let us consecrate one room in our homes, no 
 matter how small, to the worship of God. 
 
 The home Sanctuary is not a luxury but a 
 vital necessity. "The Church and the State 
 both depend for vigor and stability upon the 
 home." 
 
 Every home should have a bath-room for 
 the cleanliness of the body and a sanctuary 
 for the cleanliness of the soul. 
 
 "If Pagan Rome had domestic shrines for 
 household gods, surely Christian America 
 ought to have domestic shrines for the one 
 God." 
 
 There are few of us who have not longed, 
 at some time, for the quiet room in our home 
 in which to pray— in which to shut ourselves 
 off from the world and be alone with God. 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Chapter I — The Message 7 
 
 " II — Its Origin 37 
 
 '' III — Its Reception 49 
 
A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 
 
 Chapter i 
 
 THE MESSAGE 
 
 "And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Be- 
 hold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will 
 dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God 
 Himself shall be with them, and be their God." — Rev. 
 xxi, 3. 
 
 To All Who Worship God, Irrespective of Creed or Denomination 
 
 The Godless home is the menace of the world today. 
 Children are growing up in irreverence. God is daily 
 and universally dishonored — in the home and out of it. 
 Where will it end ? 
 
 Now comes this appeal to the world, to every man 
 and woman, and for this and all the ages to come, for a 
 Chapel or Sanctuary in every home — impracticable in 
 millions of homes already crowded, practicable in mil- 
 lions of homes which are not — possible in every home 
 that may hereafter be built — and ultimately, a chapel 
 in every home, the tribute of mankind to his Maker. 
 
 The home is the foundation of the State. The hom<3 
 and family is the cornerstone on which rests national 
 life and progress. Is this not so? Then any effectual 
 means of strengthening and uplifting home life, of 
 deepening the rehgious and moral convictions and pu- 
 rity which are the very essence of home life, must have 
 vital effect upon the national life of the human famil}' 
 as a whole. Hence this suggestion that in every home 
 there should be a place for prayer or meditation; a 
 family center for spiritual thought, communion and up- 
 lift. 
 
 The suggestion is not for an elaborate addition to 
 the house, but to take one room, simill or large, as cir- 
 cumstances may permit, if only six feet by four, set it 
 
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 A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 
 
 aside, call in your minister and consecrate and dedicate 
 it to Almighty God as the "closet" for prayer, the 
 chapel in the home, an Audience Chamber for the King 
 of Kings. It would be a potent influence on the child 
 life and a "witness" and a reminder to the parents and 
 to every visitor. The larger the home the larger the 
 chapel. We have enriched our homes from time im- 
 memorial with provisions for every physical comfort 
 and luxury, but where is there any visible evidence of 
 religion in the modern home ? The weakness of Faith in 
 the present generation has its foundation in the decline 
 of religion in the home, or to put it more forcibly, the 
 absence of it. Children lack the parental spiritual 
 foundation on which to build their Faith. There are so 
 many other gods in the home today, and so little to sug- 
 gest the presence of the One God. 
 
 It is timely that we should make provision for a 
 sanctuary for prayer in every home throughout the 
 land, and by this means strive to build a new spiritual 
 foundation for the world in the home, in the life of the 
 child, by the gradual introduction of the "consecrated 
 room," so that there shall ultimately be a chapel in 
 every home, of the rich and the poor. 
 
 Religion will be on a surer foundation, beginning 
 with earliest consciousness. Then the nations will be 
 more God-fearing, for the children will grow into men 
 and women, and the sanctity of the home will be re- 
 flected in their lives and in all their dealings with their 
 fellow-man. 
 
 This cannot be accomplished by any one denomina- 
 tion any more than it can by one individual ; it is a work 
 of labor and love, nay more, it is a duty for us all. The 
 chapel in the home will have its enemies ; it will be called 
 "impracticable," and its path will be thorny, but all 
 must admit that ''the things of God must he first or ive 
 perish." 
 
 There is nothing new in the thought of a chapel in 
 the home. In the days of the Apostle Paul he personally 
 
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 recorded that there were churches in the homes of 
 Nymphas, Priscilla and Aquila, and Apphia. Pagan 
 Rome had household temples for her idol gods. What 
 has Christian America in her homes for the Only Liv- 
 ing God? In many homes you could not find a Bible. 
 We expect everything — health, happiness, riches and 
 honors — but we give nothing. Modern religion is more 
 of a Sabbath observance than a recognized daily need. 
 There is little or nothing in our homes, or home life, to 
 remind us of our God. Family prayers are a thing of 
 the past. Grace at meal time is a rarity. There is dust 
 on the family Bible. 
 
 The writer hurls this axe at the root of the decay 
 of religion throughout the world — at the Godless 
 homes. We all recognize the menace of the Godless 
 home — we rail at it, are continually calling attention to 
 it, say w^hat will happen if something is not done — but 
 what we require today is a remedy. 
 
 No pretense is made that this is an effectual rem- 
 edy, but it is a message born from earnest prayer, and 
 with God's assistance it will help. It is at least some- 
 thing, and "worthy of the consideration of us all." 
 
 Already the message of "A Chapel in Every 
 Home" has been fervently and eloquently endorsed by 
 three Cardinals, the Primates of the Anglican Church 
 in Scotland, Ireland, Canada, India and Ceylon, the 
 West Indies, and the Metropolitans of Australia and 
 South Africa; three Archbishops, and one hundred and 
 twenty-one Bishops of the United States and Great 
 Britain, the presidents of twenty-five universities, col- 
 leges and seminaries in the United States, leading 
 clergymen of the foremost denominations, and distin- 
 guished laymen whose names are household words. 
 
 It has made more than an impression, it has taken 
 a strong hold of their convictions. What they say on 
 the subject indicates that not one of these leaders in 
 religion, science, art, finance and industry, considers it 
 impracticable of performance. In their weighty argu- 
 
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 ments for its universal adoption (which appear in this 
 book), while they recognize the difficulty of creating a 
 sanctuary or chapel in many homes of today, they find 
 a broad foundation to build on in the many homes 
 throughout the world in which the vacant room or the 
 ''closet'' is awaiting consecration. There are many 
 homes, however, in which there is neither closet nor 
 room for a closet, for they are crowded even beyond 
 their capacity; but some day every home, small or 
 large, will have its sanctuary, closet, chapel, church in 
 the house — whatever name will give God the most Glorj^ 
 — dedicated to Him and the uplift of man; where the 
 little children will learn from their parents respect and 
 love for God the Father and, in the writer's belief, for 
 Jesus Christ the Saviour. Some day, a house without 
 its sanctuary will be looked upon as an unfit habitation 
 for a human being. 
 
 No thought is advanced that the sanctuary in the 
 home will be a panacea for all human ills, but its in- 
 fluence for good, visible and invisible, mil exceed human 
 comprehension. We can make this the heritage of fu- 
 ture generations if w^e begin now with pure and unde- 
 filed rehgion in the home — ^with the children, and we 
 can make our own generation faithful servants of God. 
 
 With the home resting on the family altar, a new 
 religious life will come to the world; wholesome, un- 
 wavering. The world will learn by experience to rely 
 on prayer. We shall believe that there is more good in 
 the world than evil ; more truth than falsehood ; more 
 love, mercy and forgiveness in God, than condemnation 
 and punishment. We shall realize that prayer is the 
 only weapon with which the world can overcome evil. 
 
 Among the earliest to recognize the full value of a 
 chapel in every home was Bishop Paddock of Eastern 
 Oregon. In writing on the subject he said : 
 
 "The suggestion that in every home there 
 should be a place for prayer and meditation; a 
 
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 family center for spiritual thought, communion 
 and uplift, is excellent; it would make us more 
 loyal and loving in the family, it would increase 
 the attendance and spiritual atmosphere in our 
 churches ; it would help to bind together the whole 
 w^orld as children of the one Father, and would 
 inspire us to make them conscientious meml>ers of 
 one family in Christ. Then there would be no 
 more selfishness, no more sin; hatred and hostili- 
 ties would cease. We would love God and love 
 our neighbor also, and the heavenly life would be- 
 gin. May (jod show each one of us how we may 
 hasten this day, and give us the wnll and the power 
 to make our dreams real/' 
 
 When parents read the Bible as the Word of God, 
 and expound it as such to their children, the decline of 
 religion in the home will be stayed. Ignorance of the 
 Bible to those who have eyesight and can read, is in- 
 excusable, but to parents, it is a continuing offence 
 against the Almighty God. 
 
 Accentuating the great responsibility of parents, 
 and to suggest a means whereby they may enrich their 
 own Faith and lives by a closer daily walk with God 
 and their influence on the child's life, comes the mes- 
 sage of the chapel in the home, the place for prayer. 
 Is it possible? Is it practicable? Will it accomplish 
 its purpose? 
 
 From the viewpoint of the architect, it is both 
 practicable and desirable. Dr. Warren Powers Laird, 
 Dean of the Department of Arcliitecture, University of 
 Pennsylvania, adds this contribution : 
 
 '*To the architect, whose created works are 
 not only the seat but the symbol of the life to be 
 lived within them, the opportunity to incorporate 
 a chapel in the home must bring peculiar satisfac- 
 tion, for it would enable him to complete the prac- 
 tical provisions for the various functions of the 
 home life, now too universally confined to the 
 physical and social sides." 
 
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 A century ago the bathroom was impracticable. The 
 art of building* has not only eliminated the ''impracti- 
 cability," but the world now recognizes the necessity of 
 the bathroom for cleanliness — and if a bathroom for the 
 cleanliness of the body, then, why not a sanctuary in the 
 home for the cleanliness of the soul, a sanctuary in the 
 home of the w^orkingman, as well as his employer? 
 
 Difficulties bristle on ever>^ side; in the hovels, 
 crowded tenements, apartments, and in houses of many 
 types, but in this era of building, what the past century 
 has done for the cleansing of the body in the home, the 
 next century will do for the cleansing of the soul. Archi- 
 tects and builders will make provision for the sanc- 
 tuary in the homes of the future, whether they be 
 houses, apartments or tenements, and for the poor as 
 well as the rich. 
 
 *'If Pagan Eome had domestic shrines for 
 household gods, surely Christian America ought to 
 have domestic shrines for the One God." 
 
 It was in these immortal words that the Rev. 
 George Dana Boardman, D. D., LL. D., pastor of the 
 First Baptist Church, Philadelphia, and now long gath- 
 ered wdth the saints, received the message of "A Chapel 
 in Every Home" nearly twenty-four years ago. He 
 read it aright. His soul immediately caught its in- 
 spiration. The Christian world was behind the heathen 
 in its attitude toward its God. Then he concluded by 
 saying: 
 
 "Were the idea carried out, it would tend to 
 make every home a sacred establishment ; it would 
 make worship a daily privilege instead of a 
 weekly ; it would make worship more intensely per- 
 sonal; it would help us obey our Master's precept 
 of unostentation in worship — 'when thou prayest, 
 enter into thy closet, and having shut thy door, 
 pray to thy Father who sees in secret. ' ' ' 
 
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 Josiali II. Pemiiman, Provost, University of Penn- 
 sylvania, Philadelphia, in writing on "A Chapel in 
 Every Home, " nearly a quarter of a centuiy later, said : 
 
 ' ' The thought that we should set apart a por- 
 tion of each day for religious meditation and wor- 
 ship is, of course, a generally accepted one, but 
 your thought that there should not only be a time, 
 but also a special place in ever>' home, however 
 great, or however humble, which should be set 
 apart as a place of worship — is of importance, for 
 it emphasizes the necessity for religion in the life, 
 and in the home. Moreover, the fact that there 
 is such a place in the house is likely to keep ever 
 in the minds of its occupants, the necessity of hav- 
 ing also a time for worship. 
 
 ''Of course, God may be worshipped accept- 
 ably in a)iy place, but, in a special place, the wor- 
 ship is less apt to be interfered with by the en- 
 croachments of worldly thought and worldly 
 things. If your idea could be realized in eveiy 
 home where men profess and believe in and wor- 
 ship God, the effect on those who do not make 
 such professions would be incalculably great for 
 good. 
 
 "May your devotion to a great cause, the 
 greatest of all causes, be rewarded by the setting 
 apart of innumerable places of worship sacred to 
 God whom we profess to serve. ' ' 
 
 The words, "a chapel in every home," express the 
 whole thought; one room in eveiy home disassociated 
 with eating, sleeping, and the worldly things of this 
 life, dedicated and consecrated to Almighty God as the 
 sanctuary into which the members of the family may 
 go together or alone, in times of health, in times of 
 sickness, in times of happiness and prosperity, in times 
 of desolation and adversity, and pray in secret to our 
 Pleavenly Father in His Holy Temple. 
 
 Fellow-laborers of St. Paul were the first Chris- 
 tians to have a church in their houses. 
 
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 ''Salute the brethren which are iu Laodicea, 
 and Nymphas, and the church which is in his 
 house. '^ — Colossians 4: v. 15. 
 
 "Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my helpers in 
 Christ Jesus : who have for my life laid down their 
 own necks : unto whom not only I give thanks, but 
 also all the churches of the Gentiles. 
 
 "Likewise greet the church that is in their 
 house."— Romans 16 :v. 3-5. 
 
 "The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila 
 and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with 
 the church that is in their house."— I Corinthians 
 16 : V. 19. 
 
 ' ' Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timo- 
 thy our brother, unto Philemon, our dearly be- 
 loved and fellow-labourer, 
 
 "And to our beloved Apphia, and Archippus 
 our fellow soldier, and to the church in thy 
 house. ' ' — Philemon 1 : v. 2. 
 
 What a sincere tribute to the teaching of Jesus 
 Christ would such a room be in any house. In His Ser- 
 mon on the Mount He said : 
 
 ' ' But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy 
 closet; and when thou hast shut thy door, pray 
 to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father 
 which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly."—- 
 Matthew 6 :v. 6. 
 
 One of the pleas for a chapel in the home, which 
 will find many sympathizers, is for the secret chamber 
 for prayer. There are times when we cannot pray with 
 satisfaction when others are around, not even the most 
 loved members of our family. We want to be alone, 
 to be able to utter our thoughts aloud, unheard by the 
 world, to cry out in agony of spirit, or to offer up our 
 thanks for His manifold blessings. We just want to en- 
 ter that "closet," close the door, and be alone ^vith 
 
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 Him. How often do we hunger for this rare privilege 
 of being alone with (lod in our o\mi home? What a 
 joy it will be when in every home, whether we be a 
 guest or inmate, we can turn to this consecrated spot 
 and fall on our knees in His presence and pour out our 
 hearts. Communion such as this would produce a faith 
 strong as "the rock of ages," a soul "as a w^atered 
 garden." Prayer would lose all formalit}^ We would 
 talk to God as our Father in heaven. 
 
 In the Sunday schools the little ones learn the his- 
 tory of religion. The development of their minds is 
 more or less intellectual. This is said mth f erv-ent ap- 
 preciation of the great and good work Sunday schools 
 are doing the world over, but the real, spiritual inspira- 
 tion must come in the home, from the parents, and the 
 environment of the child must reflect their reverential 
 attitude toward God — and the acknowledgment of the 
 supreme value of religion in their daily life. When we 
 can show our children that we, the parents, love the 
 Lord, our God, with all our hearts, and approach His 
 holy altar with joy and gladness, with perfect Faith, 
 then will the child go to Sunday School and Church 
 with love and rejoicing, because it will feel that God is 
 near it, always, and not making a weekly corrective 
 visitation. The spiritual attitude of the child must be 
 created in the home, and once imbued with the thought 
 that God is the great invisible friend, eveiything taught 
 thereafter in the Sunday schools about Him will fall on 
 mlling, attentive ears. Companionship vnih God must 
 be the child's daily, loving thought, and no one can 
 give a child this thought like its mother. Mother love 
 is next to God love. Motherhood is the noblest institu- 
 tion under heaven. 
 
 The weekly half -hour lesson in the Sunday School 
 can never take the place of religious instruction in the 
 home. Parents who lean entirely on the Sunday School 
 and absolve themselves from greater responsibiUty in 
 
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 laying the foundation of the spiritual life of the child, 
 must assume accountability for its weakness in the 
 Faith. When parents realize their personal responsi- 
 bility for the building up of the Faith of the child, it 
 will become a serious duty to them, calling for prayer 
 for guidance and direction. In the home, parents by 
 correct living, truth, and a reverential attitude toward 
 God, could exercise a profound influence on the impres 
 sionable mind of the child, and the sanctuary in the 
 home would have a direct bearing on the result. The 
 greatest joy that could come to a parent would be to 
 feel that his or her child had grown up clean in mind, 
 body and soul. 
 
 "And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with 
 all thine heart and with all thy soul, and with all 
 thy might. 
 
 "And these words, which I command thee this 
 day, shall be in thine heart : 
 
 ''And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy 
 children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest 
 in thine house, and when thou walkest hy the way, 
 and when thou liest doivn, and ivhen thou risest 
 up." — Deuteronomy 6: v. 5-7. 
 
 "And thou shalt write them upon the door 
 posts of thine house, and upon thy gates ; 
 
 "That your days may be multiplied, and the 
 days of vour children." — Deuteronomy 11 : v. 20- 
 21." 
 
 Moses so instructed the fathers of the children of 
 Israel. 
 
 For many years the work of striving to build up 
 this thought in the world has been going on. The sanc- 
 tuary or chapel in every home has been viewed from 
 almost every angle by leaders of nearly all the great 
 religious denominations and, like every permanent and 
 lasting reformation, it moves slowly but surely toward 
 world-wide adoption. 
 
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 The first presentation of it was made on October 
 30, 1898, in The New York Herald and The Philadelphia 
 Press, with commendations by a few of the leading 
 churchmen, including Bishops Potter, of New York; 
 Neely, of Maine; Coleman, of Delaware; Scarborough, 
 of New Jersey and Graves, of Laramie. In 1909 the 
 first book on the subject was printed and distributed, 
 and the following appears in it : 
 
 "The words, 'a chapel in every home,' have 
 been beckoning the writer on — in the daylight, in 
 the darkness, on the street, in his office and in his 
 home. At the last named place it has long existed 
 as a reality, the most loved spot in the household, 
 consecrated by the Church and used daily by the 
 members of his family for their devotions. 'A 
 chapel in ever>' home' rings in his ears like the 
 voice of God calling him to deliver His message to 
 His people, — in the homes of the rich, in the homes 
 of the poor — a place for praver, dedicated to 
 Him." 
 
 Much has been written and said on the subject since 
 that time until it has become like the cool of the morn- 
 ing, the fragrance of the garden, the scent of the woods, 
 and the breezes of ocean. 
 
 George H. Stuart, Jr., President, The Home Mis- 
 sionary Society of the City of Philadelphia, and Vice- 
 President of The Philadelphia Bible Society, pays it 
 this tribute: 
 
 "The message of 'A Chapel in Every Home' 
 brings a new light to the world. It is a challenge 
 to the faith of us all. A Christian household is the 
 unit upon whose foundation is built the structure 
 of an enduring national life, and the influence of 
 this message shall be recorded upon the pages of 
 history. The title, so well chosen by the author, 
 clearly indicates the intimate connection between 
 worship and family reverence for those objects 
 which transcend the grosser elements of our physi- 
 cal being. 
 
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 "If ever there was a time when the chapel 
 in the home would throw its beacon light upon a 
 world, sin-tossed and struggling with passions 
 and doubts, surely it is now. It would shine out 
 over the raging sea of wavering faith, and pilot 
 us into the haven of prayer, to find sweet comfort 
 and Divine guidance in the sanctuary of the Most 
 High. Within its portals we could lay our weak- 
 ness, our sorrow and our perplexity before our 
 'Grod, in secret communion in our own home, day 
 or night. The banner of our sanctuary would ever 
 proclaim to our fellow-man our allegiance to the 
 King of Kings and our brotherhood with human- 
 ity. The thought is a noble one in its conception, 
 and wholly practicable of execution. 
 
 ' * May this chapel therefore be set up in every 
 home throughout our land and in every land, that 
 by its sacred influence, admission, and teachings, 
 the youth and manhood of the world may find, en- 
 joy, and transmit to succeeding generations, the 
 blessings alike of true religion, and civil and po- 
 litical liberty." 
 
 Here we have the expression of one whose experi- 
 ence is founded on many years of intimate associa- 
 tion with the development of the spiritual atmosphere 
 of living. 
 
 Though churches may differ on creed and ritual, 
 they have proved that they stand together to welcome 
 anything that will tend to bring back religion to the 
 home, the return of family prayer, the searching of 
 the Scriptures for knowledge, grace at meals, and once 
 again those sweet morning and evening prayers at 
 our mother's knee, or beside our little beds. The home 
 can again be made a powerful influence in the spiritual 
 life of nations. What the home requires now is greater 
 reverence for the things of God, the Bible and prayer ; 
 and the setting apart of a room to the Almighty God 
 as a sanctuary for prayer, a holy spot in the house, 
 would go a long way toward creating in the hearts of 
 
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 children a proper appreciation of the reverential atti- 
 tude of the parent toward God. The home would be 
 more of a home; it would have gfreater dij^nity — there 
 would be a closer relation between parent and child. 
 
 The present crowded tenements, apartments and 
 houses in which there is no room, cannot last forever. 
 New and modern structures for all classes are being 
 built everywhere, affording- the opportunity for owner 
 and architect to combine investment and utility with 
 work for the Master, for "where God has given a 
 roof, there he expects an altar." 
 
 In the book already referred to, printed in 1909, 
 the writer also said : 
 
 ''My own little chapel is less than six feet square, 
 yet so far it has been large enough for all our needs. 
 When I moved into my present home some years ago, 
 there it awaited me already built, at the head of the 
 stairway on the second floor, with a colored glass win- 
 dow in it, just as if I had designed it. It was probably 
 intended for a sewing room or some other domestic 
 purpose. I accepted the mute invitation and it at 
 once became the chapel. We fitted it up, had it conse- 
 crated by our minister and have used it daily ever 
 since. There are similar rooms in many homes all 
 over the world waiting their consecration and dedica- 
 tion to Almighty God. 
 
 "The chapel in every home must come in time; 
 and its effect will be to bring the presence of God into 
 thousands of homes in which he would otherwise be 
 unknown. The late Bishop Potter wrote me, 'a place 
 for prayer implies a time for it,' and since he sent me 
 that message I have learned its truth by experience, 
 and can add that in addition to the place and the time, 
 my own little chapel has proved an invitation so irre- 
 sistible that I have found myself on my knees within 
 its portals as many times outside the regular hours for 
 prayer as ^^^thin them. 
 
 "A row of houses for workingmen will be built by 
 some pioneer with a little chapel, six feet long and 
 four wide, in each house ; with a colored glass window 
 at the end to suggest an atmosphere of sanctity, the 
 
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 A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 
 
 sill of which may constitute the altar. Some may use 
 it as a store room or for any other domestic purpose, 
 but someone in the row will use the little chapel in the 
 home as a place for prayer and others will copy. It 
 may take hundreds of years to bring man to a realiza- 
 tion that he is behind the pagans in his attitude toward 
 his God; but again I predict that the time will come 
 when people, in looking for a house to rent or buy, 
 will ask, 'What kind of a chapel has it?' and the chapel 
 in every home will be sweet in the eyes of the Lord. 
 
 "I cannot let this thought die — I could not if I 
 would, for it must henceforth reverberate do^vn the 
 avenue of time, the closer relation of man with his 
 Maker in his everyday life, the invitation to God to 
 dwell in the household, the chapel in the home — every 
 home — henceforth and forever. 
 
 ''When the hot blood of anger surges through the 
 veins and the words which cut like a knife accompany 
 the cruel blow; when husband and wife forget their 
 vows made at the altar and in the presence of their 
 little ones turn on each other like wild beasts — in the 
 tumult and agony of human weakness and suffering, 
 the open door of that little room sacred to God will 
 utter 'pea<;e.' Many a harsh word will be suppressed 
 by a sight of that open door and the feeling of the in- 
 visible presence of God within. Many a one bowed 
 down in grief and tribulation will find comfort there — 
 kneeling alone with Him who will help if we will only 
 let Him, and a great joy wtIII be bom to man from a 
 closer personal communion with his God. 
 
 "It has been born to me, and often on my knees 
 in that sacred spot in my home I have prayed alone 
 against despair and death, and though death prevailed 
 and took my loved ones, I understood — it was all right 
 — and peace came over my soul so sweet that I would, 
 if I could, give it to all my fellow-men. And in the 
 daily battle of life I have found my strength and in- 
 spiration from a brief communion in the morning with 
 my Heavenly Father. The day's toil has been light- 
 ened and the shadows have dissolved before the bright 
 confidence I carried out with me from that brief com- 
 munion. 
 
 "WTiat has been the effect of the Chapel in the 
 Home on the attendance of my family at Church! It 
 
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 has been to intensify the desire for congregational 
 worship, to create a joyous anticipation of the Sab- 
 bath when the worship in the home expands into wor- 
 ship with all the people in the greater houses of God. 
 "If I could tell all that Chapel has done for me 
 and my loved ones, there is not a man who believes in 
 God who would allow another day to pass without 
 planning one for his home. 
 
 ''Some of the great and good men, whose letters 
 on this subject I have had reproduced for the benefit 
 of the world, have passed beyond the Great Divide, 
 but their words of encouragement and approval are 
 already cemented into the foundation of this move- 
 ment for all times. Others, whose letters are repro- 
 duced, still live to help in the work of making the 
 chapel in every home practical and universal. Let 
 the Bishops, High Priests and p]lders of the world, 
 unite with the Clergy to bring the thought home to 
 every congregation, and by this means it will have the 
 spiritual force through human channels w^hich will 
 hasten that day which the Almighty God intends to 
 come, w^hen a habitation will be provided for Him in 
 every home. 
 
 ''All humanity is hungering for religion. The 
 hand of sickness, sorrow and death is leaning heavily 
 on many households, and it is at such times that eyes 
 are cast heavenward for comfort. If our eyes were as 
 often cast heavenward in times of health and prosper- 
 ity as they are in times of sickness, we would be bet- 
 ter men and women, and there would be more charity 
 in the world. If we had God in our hearts as much as 
 in our heads, domestic devotion would not be dying 
 out, but would be a loving daily communion with our 
 Father in Heaven. Again, I refer to that sentence in 
 Bishop Potter's letter, 'a place for prayer implies 
 a time for it.' Let us consecrate one room in our home, 
 no matter how small, to the worship of God, and make 
 provision hereafter for the chapel in every home. 
 
 "Whoever reads these linos I invite to come for- 
 ward and help me in this generation in carrj^ing the 
 thought and suggestion as far as we am. The chapel 
 in the home \y\\\ indeed 'deepen the religious life and 
 be a safeguard against irreverence and wrong-doing 
 in the family,' and become a tower of strength among 
 
22 A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 
 
 men in developing a loftier purity in domestic life, 
 and greater love and charity toward all, 
 
 "The message now speaks, not alone from the 
 bearer, but with the eloquence of the world's greatest 
 minds, and the suggestion of a chapel in every home 
 will some day be the acclaimed demand of the civil- 
 ized world for a ' closer walk with God. ' ' ' 
 
 Conditions are no different in 1922 than they were 
 in 1898 or 1909. The world is perhaps a little more 
 uneasy, and not without reason. Devout believers are 
 becoming alamied, and are not only expecting some- 
 thing to happen but praying for it. Anything that will 
 sober the excited multitude pursuing the ''mammon 
 of mirighteousness. " Should not this thought then 
 at once appeal to all those who associate Faith with 
 everything that is Eternal! Why, the happiness of 
 knowing that you have taken a Uttle room in your 
 house, and consecrated it and made a chapel out of it, 
 a tabernacle in the home to Jehovah, would commence 
 with the adoption of the thought and never end. When 
 our Blessed Saviour sees the lights burning on millions 
 of altars erected to Him in millions of homes through- 
 out the world, twinkling like the stars, there will be 
 joy in Heaven. 
 
 The seed of "A Chapel in Every Home" has been 
 sown wherever the English language is spoken. It 
 has always been a regret to the writer that language 
 and expense prevented the sowing of the seed outside 
 of the English speaking countries. The commenda- 
 tions received from the foremost churchmen of many 
 of the leading denominations, including the House of 
 Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the 
 United States, nevertheless indicate that the universal 
 adoption of the thought would bring about a great re- 
 ligious uplift to the nations of the world. 
 
 The leaders of all denominations, clergy and laity, 
 are, therefore, urged to unite in this movement and to 
 
A CHAPEL IN EVEEY HOME 23 
 
 proclaim the message of "A Chapel in Every Home" 
 from the pulpit, aye, from the house-tops— for that is 
 how it will ultimately be brought home to man. If 
 man wants to argue against it then, he will have to 
 argue with his God. All humanity is hungering for 
 religion, and yearning for "a closer walk with God," 
 and the chapel in the home is where that hunger and 
 yearning can be satisfied. "Public worship in the 
 church— important though it be— can never take the 
 place of Family Prayers." May God grant, therefore, 
 that the home chapel may become universal, and all 
 the physical obstacles which delight the Prince of 
 Darkness dissolve in the gradual evolution of every 
 home with a tabernacle of the Lord. 
 
 How wonderful it w^ould be if every home had its 
 audience chamber for the King of Kings. 
 
 What has God done for man! Eveiy thing. He 
 made him in His o\\^l image. He gave him the de- 
 licious senses. He created the flowers in all their 
 beauty to delight the eye of man and their perfume 
 his sense of smell. He made the forests, plains and 
 mountains, the green grass and the ocean, so that 
 man should never weary. He gave him the sunsliine, 
 the moonlight and the starUght, the air and water, 
 and everything in the manner of food and clotliing. 
 Above all. He gave him his wonderful mind and soul. 
 How small a thing to ask of every man and woman 
 who believes in God to dedicate to the Creator of 
 Heaven and Earth, and to Jesus Christ our Blessed 
 Saviour, a sanctuaiy in the home— in ever\' home. 
 You have heard the message. Hearken unto it in 
 your hours of health and prosperity. These are but 
 ihe things of this life, but a sanctuary for God in 
 your home is a proclamation, an open acknowledg- 
 ment to all the world— ' a believe in God the Father, 
 and in the life to come." 
 
 ^Miat did Christ mean in his Sennon on the 
 Mount, when he said: "But thou when thou prayest, 
 
24 A CHAPEL IN EVEEY HOME 
 
 enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, 
 pray to thy Father which is in secret ; and thy Father 
 which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly?" 
 
 The mind can wander over many kinds of closets, 
 of all shapes and sizes, and typifying all ages, but 
 out of all mass of stone, brick, mortar, and lath, 
 emerges ''A Place for Prayer." 
 
 The idea of a chapel in every home, is not a pre- 
 tentious chapel with a Uttle house attached to it, but 
 a home no matter how small, with one little room in 
 it, dignified, consecrated and dedicated to the Al- 
 mighty, God as the religious center around which the 
 domestic life can revolve. We all know that there is 
 no room in numberless houses for a chapel, no matter 
 how small, for like unto the hovels, and the crowded 
 tenements, humanity is so huddled together in them it 
 scarcely has a space on which to sleep. We knew all these 
 things before the message of a chapel in every home 
 went forth, that physical conditions made its fulfill- 
 ment literally impossible in the places already re- 
 ferred to, but we also knew that there were number- 
 less houses throughout the world, with small families, 
 in which one room could at once be converted into 
 **the closet for prayer." 
 
 The greatest opportunity will come however, in 
 the new houses being constructed every year through- 
 out the world, in which a little chapel could be in- 
 cluded, and as the present unsuited houses decayed 
 or were pulled down and others took their places, a 
 chapel could be incorporated in them. If architects 
 and builders will only take hold of this thought, they 
 can help materially in making its practical adoption 
 universal. Who ivill be the first architect to design 
 a row of houses for the workingman with a little 
 chapel in every house in the row? 
 
 The most used and plausible argument of the 
 devil against a chapel in the home, is the following: 
 
A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 25 
 
 *'We do not have to set apart a room in our home. 
 God is everywhere and therefore, He is in every part 
 of it. Every spot is sacred." 
 
 This seems a reasonable argument in the face of 
 our belief in the onmipresence of Almighty God, and 
 if the omnipresence alone were in question, we could 
 make no further argument. But let us take up the 
 rest of it. Is every spot in every home aluays a fit 
 habitation for the presence of God? Beginning with 
 the attic and descending to the cellar, is every spot 
 sacred? Would your neighbor say so? But the chapel 
 in the home would always be sacred and presentable. 
 It does not matter w^hat part of the house you go to, 
 it is associated ninety-nine per cent, with man. True, 
 God is ever}'where, but would it not be an act of 
 reverence and supreme respect to provide the ''holy 
 spot" on which to stand in the exaltation of His 
 worship ? 
 
 What a powerful hold Satan has on many of us. 
 The reward offered by him is not salvation and 
 eternal life, but present earthly honors, pleasures and 
 Licentious enjoyments. This Prince of Darkness 
 stands on guard at the door of every house to tiy to 
 keep out the chapel, the tribute to Almighty God; not 
 only stands at the door, but he is in every part of the 
 house making his principal habitation in the minds of 
 the inmates. Extraordinary as it may seem, there 
 are some weak minded persons who recognize the 
 power of the devil to such an extent that they are 
 afraid to come out and fight him, or to challenge and 
 defy him, lest he work some terrible calamity to them. 
 Then there are persons who enjoy the devil and all 
 his works so thoroughly that if they had to give up 
 some of the pleasures and honors of this world and 
 make sacrifices, they would rather defy God than the 
 devil. 
 
 If one believes in God, and is either building a 
 new house or has a room in the house in which he is 
 
26 A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 
 
 living- which could be converted into a sanctuary, 
 what excuse could he really offer to God for denying 
 Him a sanctuary in the home, other than imprac- 
 ticability of performance. Responsibility for the ac- 
 ceptance or rejection of this plea must, therefore, be 
 with the individual who receives it. 
 
 The most brilliant argument that man could con- 
 ceive for the adoption of a chapel in every home, 
 could not even approach the subject, for this is not 
 a matter between man and man, hut hehveen man and 
 God. That exalted character of this message is such 
 that the world should take it up like a magnificent 
 paean to the Almighty God, and make it the most won- 
 derful and far reaching tribute ever offered to Him. 
 A universal foundation has already been laid for it by 
 the reverential and wise words of those who have 
 recognized the value of the thought and cemented 
 their approval and endorsement into its four corners. 
 What should come now is world-wide momentum. 
 Action. Who will help along these lines? — Reader — 
 will youf 
 
 There is something which few of us realize, and 
 that is — the existence of two Bibles— the material and 
 the Spiritual. The paper, ink, printing and binding is 
 the one, and the word of God is the other. If your 
 Faith w^as perfect you would know that there is a 
 spiritual atmosphere around the Bible. We accept it 
 as the word of God, but treat it the same as any other 
 book — leave it anywhere and pile other books, or any- 
 thing else, on top of it. We see only one Bible and 
 not the other. The writer's mother taught him the 
 sacredness of God's Word when he was a little fellow, 
 and during his life he can say that he has treated the 
 Bible, the book itself, with veneration and respect and 
 has never suffered, or allowed anything to be placed 
 on it, other than a prayer book or hymn book. The 
 children of Israel, thousands of years ago, made the 
 Ark of the Covenant in which were placed the two 
 
A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 27 
 
 tablets of stone, and this Ark was kept in the "holy 
 of holies," and now after all these centuries of Chris- 
 tianity, martyrdom for Faith, and tremendous efforts 
 made for the salvation of man, we take the Word of 
 God and carelessly throw it anywhere. There is no 
 holy of holies for it, and unfortunately in many homes 
 if anyone asked where the Bible was, they would have 
 to hunt the house over to find it. This is not con- 
 sistent with belief in Grod, or belief that the Bible is 
 the Word of God. There should be a sanctuaiy for 
 this precious **Word" in every home where every 
 member of the family will know where to <>-o to find 
 the Bible. 
 
 It will be found where it belongs, on the altar of 
 the Most High God. You will touch it more rever- 
 ently. You will read it more frequently, and you will 
 learn truths that you never dreamed of; truths that in 
 sickness and health, in reverses and prosperity will 
 lift you out of the flesh and ye shall walk wdth God 
 himself. How often have you read the injunction, 
 ** Search ye the scriptures," and how little searching 
 we really do. There are thousands of people who have 
 studied the poets and philosophers and who can quote 
 freely from their writings — who never miss the "best 
 fiction," but who have never read the Bible through. 
 It is incredible that the Word of God should be the 
 most widely circulated but the least read and the least 
 understood book in the world today. If you ask the 
 average person to take up his or her Bible and tuni 
 to almost any book in the Old or New Testament, 
 excepting Genesis or the four gospels, you vdW notice 
 that they have considerable difficulty in finding it, in- 
 stead of being able to turn to it at once. Why? The 
 answer is, unfamiliarity with the Bible. These are 
 truths which man must also realize, because eveiy 
 moment he delays in taking up his Bible and stud\dng 
 it carefully, searching for the great tniths waiting to 
 be revealed to him, he is casting away opportunities 
 
28 A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 
 
 to draw closer to God, which may never come to him 
 again. There should be a more intimate relation 
 between man and the Bible. It is the book of his 
 salvation and should mean more to him than a mere 
 history. The Bible should be recognized for what it 
 really is, the Word of God, and a consecrated spot pro- 
 vided for it in every home. 
 
 Religious revivals have educated the masses in 
 great Bible truths, and have accomplished much, but 
 they have failed to bring the world to God. They have 
 brought millions to the throne of Grace, but there are 
 countless milhons to be saved. The regeneration of 
 mankind must begin in the home, in every home, with 
 the child. Then shall we reach the world. Every- 
 thing must begin there and the home sanctuary is a 
 foundation upon which the superstructure of a new 
 God-loving people may be built, until we become par- 
 takers of His divine nature. 
 
 The condition of the world today is such that we 
 need continuous and not spasmodic revivals. Though 
 all humanity is hungering for religion, it is drifting 
 away from it, and one of the principal reasons for it 
 is ''modern religious skepticism." Faith is at its 
 lowest ebb. New and up-to-date theology is the vogue. 
 Human reason is supplanting Faith. Unless we return 
 to Faith, what hope is there for the world? ''Abraham 
 believed in God and it was counted unto him for 
 righteousness." The call today is for leaders like 
 Paul and the other apostles, for men who are ready 
 to hazard their lives for Faith. 
 
 "The Fool hath said in his heart : There is no 
 God. They are corrupt ; they have done abomin- 
 able works ; there is none that doeth good. 
 
 ' ' The Lord looked dow^i from heaven upon the 
 children of men, to see if there were any that did 
 understand, and seek God. ' ' — Psalms 14 : v. 1-2, 
 
A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 
 
 29 
 
 Aiid lie is looking do^\^l on us todaj' just the same 
 as He did in the time of David. Man has a greater 
 advantage today, for he has the Bible, both dispensa- 
 tions, the old and the new, the projjhecies and the 
 fulfihnents of many. In the time of David the test of 
 P^aith was greater than now, for Jesus had not come 
 and His teachings and revealments were not knowTi. 
 
 The Bible is the only book in the world that can 
 satisfy the soul as well as the mind. Those in afflic- 
 tion and tribulation go to it, and drink deep of its 
 waters, with a passionate longing for a touch of the 
 Saviour's hand; but when the affliction is lifted and 
 ease comes once more, many fall back. Though there 
 are healthy believers as well as sick ones in the present 
 state of religious indifference, the ** intimate relation' ' 
 seems only to come in the hour of trouble, and the 
 sanctuaiy in the home is where to take it, the holy 
 spot where not only the tears can be dried and the 
 soul comforted, but where we can be bom again as the 
 faithful children of God. 
 
 A noble army of martyrs gave up their lives for 
 the teachings of Christ. Contrast with them those 
 who today either argue against the Bible and its teach- 
 ings, or who neither argue against nor follow. A 
 pathetic figure in the world is the disbeliever, but the 
 real abomination is the believer who wilfully and de- 
 liberately shows disrespect to his God, no matter how 
 he does it. That man is more dangerous than the dis- 
 believer. A disbeliever is like a leopard, known by his 
 spots, but the other is a whitened sepulcher. The dis- 
 believer only expects to become carrion when he dies, 
 but the other expects salvation. Between the two the 
 disbeliever is the more honorable body. 
 
 The absence of religion in the home — in the teach- 
 ings of the parent, is not overcome by the churches 
 and Sunday Schools. Unless the foundation in the 
 child is on the rock of parental faith, exemplified by 
 life in the home, he is destined to become either a dis- 
 
30 A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 
 
 believer or an apathetic Christian. What would a 
 chapel in the home mean in the life of a child. The 
 home is not only the foundation of the State, but 
 everything begins there — Mother love and God love. 
 Every father is the priest of his house and every 
 mother the priestess. 
 
 If this appeal had been for a new kind of library, 
 sleeping room or other material improvement for the 
 mental or physical comfort of man, it would have been 
 exploited by the press, talked of by the world, and 
 adopted generally long ago. The years have gone 
 by and it is still knocking at the door of the world. 
 Who will open it? 
 
 This message came like the morning star, pure 
 and serene, and the bearer's eyes are cast upward to 
 his Maker, and not on mankind, as he writes it. He is 
 seeking g-uidance and direction, so that the message 
 will sink into the heart of man, that he may enjoy all 
 the good, ennobling, and uplifting influence which it 
 offers. Hear what the Word of God has to say on the 
 chapel in the home: 
 
 ''The Lord is my strength and song, and He 
 is become my salvation : He is my God and I will 
 prepare Him an habitation; my father's God, and 
 I will exalt Him."— Exodus 15: v. 2. 
 
 **And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of 
 priests, and an holy nation." — Exodus 19: v. 6. 
 
 "Thus saith the Lord, The Heaven is my 
 throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is 
 the house that ye build unto me! And where is 
 the place of my rest?" — Isaiah Q>Q'. v. 1. 
 
 ''A glorious high throne from the beginning 
 is the place of our sanctuary." — Jeremiah 17: 
 V. 12. 
 
 *'As David sware unto the Lord 'Surely I 
 will not come into the tabernacle of my house nor 
 
A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 31 
 
 1^0 Up into my 1)0(1; I will not ^ivc sleep to mine 
 eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids, until 1 find out 
 a place for the Lord, an habitation for the Mighty 
 God of Jacob.' "—Psalms 132: v. 2-5. 
 
 "For the palace is not for man, but for the 
 Lord God."— 1 Chronicles 29: v. 1. 
 
 *'That thine eyes may be ojjen toward this 
 house night an<l day, even toward the place of 
 which thou hast said. My namo shall be there: 
 that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which 
 thy servant sliall make toward this place. 
 
 "And hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place; 
 and when thou hearest, forgive." — 1 Kings 8: 
 v. 29-30. 
 
 **No\v it came to pass, as David sat in his 
 house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, 
 Lo, I dwell in a house of cedars, but the ark of the 
 covenant of the Lord reraiainetli under curtains." 
 — 1 Chronicles 17: v. 1. 
 
 "O Lord our God, all this store that we have 
 prepared to build thee an house for thine holy 
 name cometh of thine hand, and is all thine own." 
 — 1 Chronicles 11 : v. 16. 
 
 "Thus saith the Lord God: Although I have 
 cast them afar off among the heathen, and al- 
 though I have scattered them among the countries, 
 yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the 
 countries where they shall come." — Ezekiel 11 : 
 V. 16. 
 
 "My tabernacle also shall be with them; yea, 
 I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 
 
 * ' And the heathen shall know that I the Lord 
 do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in 
 the midst of them for evermore." — Ezekiel 37 : 
 V. 27-28. 
 
 "Woe unto them that join house to house, 
 that lay field to field, till there be no place, that 
 
32 A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 
 
 they may be placed alone in the midst of the 
 earth ! 
 
 ''In mine ears said the Lord of hosts, Of a 
 truth many houses shall be desolate, even great 
 and fair, without inhabitant." — Isaiah 4: v. 8-9. 
 
 "And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle 
 shall be in peace ; and thou shalt visit thy habita- 
 tion, and shalt not sin. ' ' — Job 5 : v. 24. 
 
 "For in the time of trouble he shall hide me 
 in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle 
 shall he hide me ; he shall set me up upon a rock. ' ' 
 — ^Psalms 27 : v. 5. 
 
 "Holiness becometh thine house, Lord, for- 
 
 " Because of the house of the Lord our God 
 I will seek thy good."— Psalms 122: v. 9. 
 
 "Behold, bless ye the Lord, all ye servants of 
 the Lord, which by night stand in the house of the 
 Lord. 
 
 "Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and 
 bless the Lord."— Psalms 134: v. 1-2. 
 
 ' ' Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in his sanc- 
 tuary: praise him in the firmament of his power." 
 — Psalms 150: v. 1. 
 
 "But continue thou in the things thou hast 
 learned and hast been assured of, knowing of 
 whom thou hast learned them; And that from a 
 child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which 
 are able to make thee wise unto salvation through 
 faith which is in Jesus Christ."— II Timothy 3: 
 V. 14-15. 
 
 Visions of the abandonment of all pleasures, joy 
 and gladness, will be conjured up by the Prince of 
 Darkness, in order to set man against the chapel in 
 the home. He will cause the human mind to picture 
 long, solemn-faced heads of families, whose very pres- 
 
A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 33 
 
 once is ciilculated to crush all the joy and sunshine 
 out of young life. This powerful Prince of Darkness, 
 who exercises such a strong influence over the weak, 
 is a master in suggesting to the human mind the 
 horror and desolation of being good. Defy this power 
 and praise the Lord. If you want sparkling, radiant 
 goy and happiness in your home, consecrate a little 
 chapel in it. Sing, be glad, and feast as much as ye 
 ever did, but there \\'ill be a place for a prayer and a 
 time for it. The time is approaching when a house 
 without a sanctuaiy will be no better than a stable, 
 and a house with a sanctuary, though only one story 
 high, \nll be greater than the palace without one. You 
 have read what the Scriptures say about the habita- 
 tion for Almighty God. It is not a question of "How 
 can we deny it, but how quickly we can enter into our 
 o\\Ti sanctuary and weep over our neglect ? ' ' 
 
 Then what are those people going to do who 
 have absolutely no room for a chapel or sanctuary in 
 their homes ? Are they to be condemned ? That has 
 already been answered. Physical impossibility is a 
 barrier which time and circumstances alone can re- 
 move, and until that time, if they believe, their sanc- 
 tuary is in their heart. 
 
 Custom has made rehgion too much of a Sabbath 
 observance and not enough of a daily one, and even 
 then it is a real effort for some people to go to church. 
 If they can get out of it by any reasonable means, 
 satisfying to their conscience, they will do so. Some 
 people look upon going to church as a plain duty and 
 nothing more, and they fulfill it patiently and faith- 
 fully. Such a condition of mind is not religion. Re- 
 ligion is a worship of the Almighty God, a genuine 
 pouring forth of the soul and heart in supplication for 
 ourselves and for others, but it must spring from the 
 soul with spontaneity and Faith, and that sense of 
 duty referred to must be as far away as the poles. 
 Often the human heart is filled \nth agony and wants 
 
34 A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 
 
 some place where it can pour it forth; and what a 
 help is the ''sanctuary" in the home in such a moment. 
 The very word sanctuary is a haven in itself, into 
 which we can take our ship in the storms of life, and 
 there under the lee, protected from the hurricane and 
 the migiity sea, we can take on a new Pilot — Jesus of 
 Nazareth — and place our ship in His hands. He 
 stilled the waters of Galilee and He can still the 
 troubled waters of our soul. 
 
 The human desire is to pray in secret, and there- 
 fore a little chapel to steal into and fall on one's 
 knees and open our hearts, is a joy that must ulti- 
 mately be carried into every home. The progress Mall 
 be slow until the world awakens some morning to the 
 real value of this blessed thought. When that time 
 comes meetings and conventions will be held, and the 
 mighty men \A\\ rise up and speak for its adoption 
 with the eloquence of David. No longer will there 
 be one solitary human being searching his heart and 
 soul for words to try to give to the world the message. 
 So great has the message always appeared to him 
 that he would write it in great letters across the sky, 
 "Let there be a Chapel in Every Home,'' so that all 
 men, women and children every time they looked up- 
 ward would see it. 
 
 "And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of 
 wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these 
 things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 
 
 "For nation shall rise against nation, and 
 kingdom against kingdom : and there shall be fam- 
 ines, and pestilence, and earthquakes in divers 
 places. 
 
 "All these are the beginnings of sorrows. 
 
 "Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, 
 and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all 
 nations for my name's sake. 
 
 "And many false prophets shall rise, and 
 shall deceive many. 
 
A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 35 
 
 ''And because iniquity shall abound, the love 
 of many shall wax cold. 
 
 "But he that shall endure unto the end, the 
 same shall be saved. 
 
 "And this gospel of the kingdom shall be 
 preached in all the world for a witness unto all 
 nations; and then shall the end come. 
 
 "When ye therefore shall see the abomina- 
 tion of desolation, spoken of by Daniel, the 
 prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, 
 let him understand)."— Matthew 24: v. G-15. 
 
 "Stand in the holy place!" Jesus spake these 
 words, and if the end came today, w^hat holy place 
 w^ould we stand in? If all the churches were filled to 
 their capacity they would not hold one-tenth of us. 
 But with a sanctuary in every home, we could stand 
 in the holy place and await the ^\^ll of Almighty God. 
 The chapel in the home is not a luxury; it is a 
 necessity. It belongs in the home of the lowly as well 
 as the mighty; in every home. To architects then, this 
 appeal is presented, to take the initiative, when called 
 upon to make drawings for a home of any kind, and to 
 include the chapel. The larger the home, the larger 
 the chapel, but a chapel in every home. 
 
 The fires of the thought of "A Chapel in Every 
 Home" have been smouldering for a long time. Soon 
 they will burst into a conflagration of adoption which 
 will sweep the world; not for the aesthetic addition of 
 bricks, mortar and plaster to our dwellings, but for 
 the holy place in which we can stand when the last 
 trumpet shall sound, the holy place, God's sanctuar}\ 
 The night is coming. Let us not delay in accept- 
 ing the opportunity to participate in this glorious 
 movement for the making of a better world; a new 
 influence on child Ufe, which shall make him a better 
 man ; a new personal bond between ourselves and our 
 Creator, and a universal recognition of the necessity 
 of "a closer walk with God" in our dailv life. 
 
36 A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 
 
 Let every man who believes extend an invitation 
 to the Father to come and dwell with him and his 
 household by preparing for Him a habitation. 
 
 Start not and say "My home is too small, every 
 room is occupied." Accept the thought in your 
 hearts, the rest will come. God will take care of those 
 who have it only in the heart, and would do if they 
 could. 
 
 The solution of the world's unrest can only, and 
 eventually must come, through religion. There are 
 many nationalities but only one God. The various 
 conceptions of His powers and limitations issuing out 
 of the different creeds and denominations will be 
 merged through Faith into one belief when the peace 
 of God, which passeth all understanding shall over- 
 spread the world, and capital and labor work together 
 forever in harmony. The foundation of the unity of 
 all religions is in the home, and the "holy place" in 
 the house will be the preparation for it. 
 
 Then let us adopt as one people and for all time the 
 obligation to Almighty God to set apart wherever pos- 
 sible in every dwelling now erected, and to include in 
 every dwelling, whether it be house, tenement, apart- 
 ment or institution, hereafter erected, and wheresoever 
 located, one room, small or large, as circumstances may 
 permit, disassociated with the worldly things of this 
 life, and specially dedicated and consecrated to Him as 
 ''the Chapel in the Home." 
 
Chapter ii. 
 
 ITS ORIGIN 
 
 The presentation of the sugg^estion of ''A Chapel 
 in Even^ Home" has been referred to repeatedly by 
 the writer as a ''message'' to humanity, implying a 
 Divine origin. These are the facts surrounding its 
 inception : 
 
 As a young man he deeply regretted the limita- 
 tions of his ability to help his fellow man. He could 
 give him personal sei*\'ice, pray with him and hope for 
 him, but little else. Sickness and unliappiness seemed 
 to surround him on all sides, and as he grow nearer 
 and closer to his Maker he commenced to pray that 
 God would make him His agent to help humanity. He 
 had no idea what way He could or would use him, but 
 for ten years, night and morning, he made the same 
 earnest plea to the Almighty God to make him His 
 agent. He knew no better word than that, and he used 
 it every time he prayed. The months and years passed 
 but he never felt discouraged. He kept on offering 
 himself and pleading for the world, and lo ! after years 
 of supplication, God answered his prayer. One blessed 
 Sabbath morning He made him the bearer of this 
 message to all the world, *'Let there be a Chapel in 
 Every Home. ' ' 
 
 It was so exalting that he could scarcely believe 
 that God had selected him to give this message to 
 humanity. It was the most direct and marvelous 
 answer to prayer. 
 
 What a wonderful Sabbath morn that was. **A 
 Chapel in Every Home !" He felt like going on to the 
 street and shouting out the message to the world, with 
 a feeling that it would be transmitted instantaneously 
 to every part of it. 
 
 He had the message. How should he deliver it I 
 The five words told the whole story. There was so 
 
38 A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 
 
 little to write about that it would not make up a book. 
 The first thing he did, however, was to reduce the 
 elaborating thoughts as they came to him, to writing, 
 and after he had completed the manuscript he had it 
 set up in type and sent it to every member of the 
 House of Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church, 
 in the United States, who as far as the message was 
 concerned, were opportunely attending the General 
 Conference in Washington, D. C. This was in 1898. 
 At the same time he sent a copy to the Archbishops 
 and Bishops of the Anglican Church in G-reat Britain, 
 also to several well known ministers of different de- 
 nominations in the United States. The harvest was 
 small but rich. About five per cent, of the House of 
 Bishops acknowledged it and about two per cent, of 
 the Ajiglican Bishops, but their responses were of such 
 a cliaracter as to indicate that the thought of ''A 
 Chapel in Every Home" was something that the world 
 was waiting for. 
 
 The most responsive acknowledgment came from 
 the late George Dana Boardman, D. D., LL. D., for 
 thirty years pastor of the First Baptist Church in 
 Philadelphia, which has already been quoted. His 
 imperishable words gave the bearer of this message 
 courage and happiness. He now had the message and 
 comments on it by distinguished churchmen. The next 
 thing was to publish it. He took it to one of the fore- 
 most newspapers in Philadelphia, filled with exalta- 
 tion over what he was offering. The City Editor, 
 whom he knew personally, read it through carefully, 
 and handed it back to him with the comment : 
 
 "It has no news value; we cannot use it." 
 
 The same day he called on the Editor of another 
 large daily paper and he showed immediate interest. 
 
 "What do you want for the article?" he 
 asked. 
 
A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 39 
 
 ''Its publication," was the reply. 
 
 "Very well," he said, "we will give it half 
 a page and illustrate it. It will come out in two 
 weeks," and it did. 
 
 The writer then went over to New York and called 
 on the City Editor of The New York Herald. He was 
 kind but skeptical — not of the value of the thought — 
 but of the world. He read the article and also the 
 original comments from the Bishops and other church- 
 men. Finally he agreed to publish it with its endorse- 
 ments, and simultaneously, on the thirtieth day of 
 October, 1898, the message of "A Chapel in Every 
 Home" went out to the world through The Neiv York, 
 Herald and The Philadelphia Press. The writer ex- 
 pected to see the newspapers around the globe take 
 up the thought and from that time on people every- 
 where begin to make plans for chapels in their homes, 
 but the articles in the Herald and Press were the 
 Alpha and Omega. It was a painful surprise. The 
 message had been published, however, with the views 
 on it by Bishops and other churchmen, and he bought 
 a large number of both papers for distribution. 
 
 The article published in The Philadelphia Press 
 and TJte Neiv York Herald follows: 
 
 "A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME." 
 
 The New York Herald and Philadelphia Press, October 30th, 1898. 
 
 "A religious atmosphere is so essential to a true 
 home that it is strange the thought of incorporating a 
 small chapel in every house has not presented itself 
 before this to the Christian world. 
 
 "In most American homes a room no larger than 
 a bathroom would answer all requirements. Its sacred 
 character could be imparted by a colored glass window, 
 tiny altar, prie dieu and other religious emblems, in 
 consonance with the views of individual worshippers. 
 
 "It is quite probable that the existence of a spot 
 thus hallowed in every house would have a decidedly 
 
40 A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 
 
 beneficial effect on the inmates, for there axe times 
 when, either in trouble or sickness, the heart longs for 
 communion with God in some quiet chamber, from 
 w^hich the garish light of day has been excluded. 
 
 ''With a room specially created for this purpose, 
 dedicated to worship and flooded with a tender at- 
 mosphere, breathing of sacredness and tranquillity, a 
 yearning would be satisfied and a custom established 
 that would find many sympathizers. 
 
 ''The nearest approach to this is perhaps found 
 in the homes of devout Christians who have dedicated 
 a comer of their bedrooms to worship, and placed 
 there the symbols of their faith, before which they 
 kneel while offering up their orisons. 
 
 "Up to the present day a chapel in connection 
 with the households of private individuals has been 
 confined exclusively to those born to high estate or to 
 the wealthy. 
 
 "In England and on the Continent, each royal 
 residence has its chapel, in some instances dating back 
 centuries, and many members of the nobility and 
 landed gentry have copied the example and erected 
 within their castle walls or on their large estates 
 private chapels for the exclusive use of the members 
 of the family and the tenantry. 
 
 "The idea, which dates back to the medieval ages, 
 has also impressed itself upon a small percentage of 
 those who have amassed or inlierited wealth, and there 
 are instances, both in this country and abroad, where 
 in the construction of the modem palatial residence, 
 as much attention has been paid to the chapel as to 
 the art gaUery. 
 
 ' ' Colleges, universities, large private schools, hos- 
 pitals and like institutions may be cited as a half-way 
 step between the church and the private dwelling. 
 They afford an illustration of the advantages derived 
 from having a private place for worship in connection 
 with each institution. The addition of a private 
 chapel gives a fullness and completeness to the institu- 
 tion, affording a religious influence essential to the 
 realization of its noblest objects. 
 
A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 41 
 
 "But to go back to the idea of a chapel for eveiy 
 house, apart from its usefulness in providing a special 
 chamber for spiritual communion, it would mean the 
 introduction of an entirely new atmosphere in a house- 
 hold, and distill a purity and dignity unobtainable 
 from any other source. It could be mi\de a little 
 temple into which one could retire at any time and 
 feel as far removed from the sordid interests of life 
 as in the precincts of the church. 
 
 "Further, it would be a universal acknowledg- 
 ment of the supreme value of religion in the activities 
 of every day existence. 
 
 "With such a foundation to build on, one need 
 not go very far out of his way to make the suggestion 
 an accompUshed fact and become the possessor of a 
 private chapel of more or less beauty or simplicity for 
 the use of his household. 
 
 "As with every radical innovation of sweeping 
 character, it is not only necessary to prove its value, 
 but to find some vulnerable point of the armor of old- 
 established custom and tradition through which the 
 shaft of light can pass. The history of most innova- 
 tions will show that they were first praised, then 
 opposed and condemned and finally accepted by all. 
 
 "In this instance the question resolves itself into 
 one of appeal to those whose condition of enlighten- 
 ment makes them amenable to that which would elevate 
 and ennoble; in other words, bring religion closer to 
 them by establishing a private place of worship in 
 their house. 
 
 "At first thought, it w^ould almost appear that 
 such a suggestion was intended to interfere mth the 
 prerogatives of the Church by inviting people to wor- 
 ship at home instead of congregating together in 
 larger edifices. 
 
 "On the contrary, the suggestion of a chapel in 
 every house is intended to strengthen the love for re- 
 ligious worship by providing a link between home and 
 church, in which the teachings of the Sabbath may be 
 digested throughout the week days, and continually 
 suggested by the presence of sacred symbols. 
 
 "Add to this the absolute necessity of a place for 
 worship for those who are confined to the house by 
 
42 A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 
 
 sickness, and for the early association of little lives 
 with the sentiment and atmosphere of religion. 
 
 ''The reality of such surroundings could not fail 
 to have an impressive effect, and it is reasonable to 
 suppose that it would aid the young in concentrating 
 their minds upon the prayer or hjTun selected for the 
 morning or evening devotional exercises. In this home 
 chapel children could be trained from early infancy. 
 
 "But the allurements of such a retreat are so 
 manifold that the subject opens the way to a volume of 
 reasons why a private chapel should exist in every 
 household, whereas it is the intention of the writer to 
 simply suggest such an innovation. 
 
 ''A practical beginning could be made in this 
 direction in the many new building operations now 
 going on and being formulated. Plans could be altered 
 so as to include a small chapel, and it is to be hoped 
 the day is not far distant when house seekers will not 
 be satisfied ^\^th any house unless one room, no matter 
 how small, is specially constructed for private 
 worship." 
 
 With the aid of the different church almanacs he 
 was enabled to find the addresses and to send copies 
 of this article to every Bishop of the Protestant Epis- 
 copal Church and to every Archbishop and Bishop of 
 the Roman Catholic Church in America, and also to 
 the Archbishops and Bishops of the Anglican Church, 
 with a personal letter. They would have been sent to 
 leading churchmen in countries where the English 
 language was not spoken, only the barrier of language 
 confronted him, and the absence of all reference books 
 of the names of the clergy in nations of other tongues 
 than his own. There was also the additional question 
 of expense. 
 
 The responses from the proof of this article, and 
 later from its pubUcation, though few in number, were 
 rich in encouragement, and are published chronologi- 
 callv in the order received: 
 
A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 43 
 
 THE FIRST ENDORSERS. 
 
 The Right Rev. Henry C. Potter, Bishop of New 
 York: 
 
 " 'A Chapel in Everj^ Home' is admirable and 
 most timely. We are losing: the habit which was so 
 powerful an element in the life of our fathers, of 
 domestic devotion. A place for it implies a time for 
 it, and a devotional atmosphere recalls, sobers and 
 uplifts. In creating such an atmosphere, fit environ- 
 ment is a most important factor.'' 
 
 The Right Rev. Leighton Coleman, Bishop of 
 Delaware : 
 
 "The subject upon which I have been asked to 
 write — *A Chapel in Every Home' — is one in regard 
 to which I have always felt much interest and anxiety. 
 1 have always felt this great interest because the mat- 
 ter is one of such vital concern to all the families of 
 the land. Hardly anything, indeed, is more a matter 
 of vital concern. It has to do with our most intimate 
 relations ^v^th God, and with one another. Family 
 prayer is one of the three great divisions of Prayer — 
 Private, Family and Public. Negligence concerning it 
 in any one of these parts is sure to entail great 
 spiritual loss. 
 
 "My anxiety arises from a belief that there is a 
 \ndespread neglect of family worship. In this respect 
 there has been, I fear, a marked decadence during the 
 past few years. Anything, therefore, that will to any 
 degree conduce to a better observance of this duty, as 
 I esteem it, has my wannest sympathy. It is as be- 
 lieving that the reservation in every home of an apart- 
 ment, or the erection in connection with every home of 
 a chapel, where family worship may be regularly held 
 is a distinct gain in this direction that I would advo- 
 cate such an arrangement Anth all my heart. Ha\'ing 
 at my residence at Wilmington such a chapel, I can 
 write all the more emphatically of the many ad- 
 vantages belonging to such a building. The setting 
 apart of some particular edifice, or portion of edifice, 
 for this purpose is a distinct addition to the spiritual 
 
44 A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 
 
 power of every household and to the religious educa- 
 tion of every member thereof. 
 
 "I am writing in the midst of exacting duties at 
 our General Convention, and, therefore, can by no 
 means do justice to this most important and interest- 
 ing subject of whose public presentation I am very 
 
 The Right Rev. John Scarborough, Bishop of New 
 Jersey : 
 
 ^* 'The Church in the House' is as old as the New 
 Testament and is not unknown in this day. I know a 
 good many homes that are now supplied with 'Ora- 
 tories,' or places of prayer for the family. If all 
 homes could have such a room set apart, it would be 
 most desirable. But, of course, only the homes of the 
 well-to-do could be so enriched. The homes of the 
 poor are too often crowded and cramped. Where it 
 is possible, it would be most desirable that the propo- 
 sition of 'A Chapel in Every Home' should be carried 
 out." 
 
 The Right Rev. H. A. Neely, Bishop of Maine : 
 
 "I can think of no more wholesome provision for 
 any Christian household than that of a Chapel in the 
 house. Many considerations could be urged for it, of 
 which I name but one, viz., that it would go far to 
 assure the maintenance of family worship, which I 
 fear is becoming sadly neglected among us." 
 
 The Right Rev. Anson R. Graves, Bishop of 
 Laramie : 
 
 ' ' The idea of a Chapel in each home is a beautiful 
 and practical one, and I trust the article may result in 
 starting a movement in that direction." 
 
 The Right Rev. T. U. Dudley, Bishop of Kentucky: 
 
 '* 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I have read the 
 article with great interest. I hope that you will con- 
 tinue to write on the same lines, because I am per- 
 
A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 45 
 
 suaded that you will receive help to revive what is, I 
 fear, an almost lost habit — that of family i)rayer." 
 
 The Right Rev. Thomas M. Clark, Bishop of 
 Rhode Island: 
 
 "I think it would be well, whenever it is prac- 
 ticable, that there should be a room in every home 
 especially consecrated to the purposes of private and 
 family worship. I enclose an article which I have 
 recently published which may serve to indicate my 
 views in regard to the prevailing neglect of family 
 devotions, and I am too feeble at present to say any- 
 thing further: 
 
 "A Household Without God. 
 "By the Bishop of Rhode Island. 
 
 ''In this nominally Christian land there are very 
 many households in which there is never any outward 
 recognition of the existence of a God. In the morning 
 the father goes off to his business or his pleasures, 
 the children are sent to school, the mother goes on 
 with her household duties, and at night they all retire 
 to their rest — while in the meantime no word of 
 Scripture has been read, no word of prayer spoken, 
 no allusion made to the Gospel of Christ, or the fact 
 of an eternal hereafter. When the Saviour was on 
 earth, He consorted with all sorts and conditions of 
 men and not unfrequently was the gTiest of those who 
 had no sympathy with Ilim or His mission. If He 
 sliould now return to us in person He might possibly 
 find shelter under the roof of such a godless family as 
 we have described. As the shadows of evening de- 
 scend, we can imagine Him sitting in the midst of the 
 household circle and saying to them: 'My friends, you 
 must know that I came into the world to die, in order 
 that you might be saved from sin and death. Are you 
 not conscious of anything wrong in your conduct which 
 needs to be forgiven ? Do you never feel the need of 
 the great blessings which it is in my power to give 
 you? You are very solicitous for the temporal wel- 
 fare of your children — have you no care for their 
 spiritual wants? Are you willing to expose them to 
 
46 A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 
 
 the terrible temptations of such a world as this, with- 
 out directing them to the only Being who can protect 
 and shelter them from harm? Do you never think 
 what awaits you in the future? All may be very 
 bright and cheerful today, but sooner or later the 
 clouds will gather and darkness enshroud your dwell- 
 ing. There may be a vacant seat here, and one 
 familiar voice which in the past has made your home 
 so cheerful will be no more on earth. 
 
 " 'Sooner or later the time will come when each 
 of you will be called to go down into the dark valley 
 and take that last dread journey which every one must 
 travel alone, and unless you have Me for your friend, 
 who is to welcome you when you reach the eternal 
 world f ' 
 
 ''It is possible that these are the terms in which 
 the Saviour might address you ; and if He is not in all 
 your thoughts, if you never pray to Him, never con- 
 fess your sins to Him, and never thank Him for His 
 mercies, you are living without God in the world ; and 
 this is to be without hope at the time when you will 
 be in greatest need of help." 
 
 The Eight Rev. Daniel S. Tuttle, of Missouri, 
 Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church 
 in the United States: 
 
 ''The Church and the State both depend for vigor 
 and stability upon the home. Anything, therefore, 
 emphasizing the vital comiection between the ' Church ' 
 and the 'Home,' as a 'Chapel' does, is of value." 
 
 The Bishop of Newcastle, England: 
 
 "I think it would be an excellent thing if, wher- 
 ever practicable, a small Oratory (call it what you 
 will) could be set apart in every house for family wor- 
 ship and where any member of the household might 
 not be ashamed to pray. In England we have chapels 
 attached to many large houses, and to residences of 
 Bishops almost mthout exception, and I cannot say 
 how much I value mv o^^al." 
 
A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 47 
 
 The Right Rev. William F. Nichols, Bishop of 
 California : 
 
 " 'A Chapel in Every Home.' An American home 
 may mean a mere dwelling. The imnates may have a 
 common table, common night keys and up to a certain 
 extent common bills. In such a home a chapel would 
 probably be somewhat like family plate, kept in safety 
 deposit vaults — for use only on great occasions. But 
 in what I beheve is the far more typical American 
 home, where the hearth stone is cemented and sancti- 
 fied by religion, a place set apart simple and sacredly, 
 would tend to make some member of the family reso- 
 lute, and that oftentimes is what is needed in a Chris- 
 tian family — to sweeten the daily life with at least a 
 few devotional words from the family as a whole, 
 l)lessing the joys and soothing the trials as they come. 
 With the provision of such a spot in the architecture 
 for a Christian home there might well go the custom, 
 which I have ever found welcomed in California, of 
 having a special service of benediction about the time 
 of the opening of a new Home." 
 
 The Right Rev. G. AVorthington, Bishop of Neb- 
 raska : 
 
 ** 'A Chapel in Every Home.' Over thirteen years 
 ago I built my present residence in this city and ar- 
 ranged for an Oratory which is sufficiently large, not 
 only for the daily offices which are said there, but for 
 special Episcopal sets as occasion requires. It has not 
 alone been a great convenience to one in my position, 
 but it has been in many ways a blessing to those who 
 are members of my household. 
 
 "I doubt not that a special place for prayer and 
 praise, and consecrated by the daily use of the family 
 under the direction of the head of the house, who is 
 divinely appointed as Priest in the home, would bring 
 a sweet benediction to those who desire communion 
 ^^'ith God, and believe in His promise that 'where two 
 or three are met together in ^My name there am I in 
 the midst of them.' " 
 
48 A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 
 
 The Bishop of Rochester, England : 
 
 ' ' The suggestion, is I think, excellent and not least 
 in a country where house building is such an art as it 
 is in yours. The value of a thing of the kind, will, of 
 course, depend on the spirit in which it is done. To 
 make a toy of it would be far worse than not to have it 
 at all. But to give some visible expression to what 
 should be the sacred center of every home life must, 
 according to every principle, be right. In this con- 
 nection, I was struck by the saying of a medical friend 
 who told me he was conscious that he could give an 
 opinion better and more effectively in his consulting 
 room than elsewhere." 
 
 The Right Rev. Leigh R. Brewer, Bishop of Mon- 
 tana: 
 
 ^' 'A Chapel in Every Home' is deserving of se- 
 rious consideration. It would add to the sanctity of the 
 home, deepen the religious life and be a safeguard 
 against irreverence and wrong doiug in the family." 
 
 The Rev. George Dana Boardman, D. D., LL. D., 
 for thirty years pastor of the First Baptist Church, of 
 Philadelphia : 
 
 "The idea of a 'Chapel for Every House' is ex- 
 ceedingly happy. Were the idea carried out, it would 
 tend to make every home a sacred establishment; it 
 would make worship a daily privilege instead of a 
 weekly; it would make worship more intensely per- 
 sonal; it would help us to obey our Master's precept of 
 unostentation in worship, 'When thou prayest, enter 
 into thy closet, and having shut thy door, pray to thy 
 Father who sees in secret.' If pagan Rome had 
 domestic shrines for household gods, surely Christian 
 America ought to have domestic shrines for the one 
 God." 
 
Chapter hi. 
 
 ITS RECEPTION 
 
 Against these responses stood out the silence of 
 the many, to whom the writer had sent the article and 
 letter. AVhat did they think? Why did they stand 
 mute? He had no way of knowing. It was not what 
 he had expected. There were no outpourings of praise 
 to Almighty God, for the great message. No generous 
 offers to help from all denominations to propagate it 
 throughout the world; no bonfires were lighted 
 throughout the land to "wave the answer back to 
 Heaven." The world went on as before. 
 
 In vain the writer waited to hear from others; 
 waited patiently and hopefully, shutting out of his 
 heart the resentment which arose against the indiffer- 
 ence of the "many." "In your patience possess ye your 
 souls." — St. Luke 21: v. 19. He began to analyze his 
 presentation for defects. The spirit of hopefulness 
 wliicli had carried him on became more subdued. Each 
 day he asked God for g-uidance and direction, but no 
 impelling influence stirred him to further publication 
 other than by correspondence and discussions on the 
 subject, which were of daily occurrence. Almost every 
 one with whom he talked, took the negative side. They 
 admitted the thought to be a beautiful idea, totally im- 
 possible of perforaiance, principally on account of 
 physical conditions. Few, indeed, recognized it as an 
 obligation to Almighty God, but dealt A\dth it strictly 
 as a physical proposition depending upon convenience. 
 So usual was it for his hearers to begin immediately 
 along these lines, that he invariably knew by the ex- 
 pression of the face what was coming before there was 
 a single utterance. Despite his dependence on Divine 
 guidance, there were times when he became impatient 
 and greatly troubled in spirit, particularly on the Sab- 
 
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50 A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 
 
 bath day, when ministers with whom he had conversed, 
 made no allusion to the subject in their sermons. He 
 would sit in church with upturned eyes, waiting for 
 some word to come from the pulpit ; but alas ! it never 
 came. 
 
 And so years rolled by, until 1909. This year all 
 the exaltation which the writer felt in 1898, when the 
 message first came to him, returned. The time had 
 come to move forward. The period of inactivity was 
 over. The world should receive the message again, 
 this time in book form, reinforced by the words of 
 those who wiser than their generation, had recognized 
 its value to humanity. 
 
 The plans for this book were long prayed over. 
 The first decision of the waiter was to publish it at his 
 own expense for free distribution to the world, which 
 happily he w^as able to do. It was a folio volume 9x12 
 inches, bound in black cloth and stamped across the 
 cover in gold, "A Chapel in Every Home.'' It con- 
 tained the original presentation of the message and a 
 new one addressed: "To All Who Worship God, Ir- 
 respective of Creed or Denomination." In it were 
 fac-simile reproductions of the letters which have al- 
 ready appeared in this book, from the eleven Bishops 
 of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United 
 States, two from Anglican Bishops, and the letter from 
 the Eev. George Dana Boardman. 
 
 On October 1, 1909, the book commenced its jour- 
 ney to Pjurope, Asia, Africa, Australia and throughout 
 the United States and Canada, to Cardinals, Arch- 
 bishops, Bishops, prominent ministers of the leading 
 denominations, college presidents and distinguished 
 laymen, accompanied by the following letter: 
 
 "Under separate cover there has been mailed 
 to you a copy of a booklet entitled 'A Chapel in 
 Every Home.' 
 
 "The title really conveys the whole thought: 
 It is a suggestion that in every home there should 
 
A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 51 
 
 be a place for prayer or meditation ; a family cen- 
 ter for spiritual thought, communion and uplift. 
 
 "The home and family is the cornerstone on 
 which rests national life and progress. Is it not 
 so? Then any effectual means of strengthening 
 and uplifting home Life, of deepening the religious 
 and moral convictions and purity which are the 
 very essence of home life, must have vital etfect 
 upon the national life of the human family as a 
 whole, 
 
 "The writer believes that this phase of the 
 thought that suggested 'A Chapel in Every Home' 
 may appeal to you, and asks that you give the 
 booklet a perusal for the purpose of such com- 
 ment, critical or commendatory, as your judgment 
 may dictate. 
 
 "There is nothing commercial in the publica- 
 tion. It has been printed at the personal expense 
 of the writer, for distribution among churchmen, 
 public officials and publicists, for no other purpose 
 than as a contribution to the general betterment 
 of humanity." 
 
 The harvest from this appeal was a bountiful one. 
 Nothing could be more eloquent than the responses. 
 In 1912 a supplement to "A Chapel in Eveiy Home" 
 was published, and in 1913 another little book entitled 
 "An Appeal to All the World for a Chapel in Every 
 Home," and the responses from all appeals are here- 
 with given. They are not simply endorsements of the 
 message — they are part of it, and must be read into its 
 woof and fibre. They present new, inspired and en- 
 riching arguments, glorifying God in their earnestness 
 and striking wonderful chords of harmony in this mes- 
 sage that shall ultimately bring to every home a bene- 
 diction, which in the words of Bishop Spellmeyer will 
 "soon bring the world to Christ, and Christ l)aek to 
 the world." 
 
 Ordinarily the endorsements of a book follow its 
 publication. "A Chapel in Eveiy Home" is not a 
 
52 A CHAPEL IN EVEKY HOME 
 
 book, however, in the ordinary sense of the word. It 
 is a movement that has been going on for twenty-four 
 years, and the opinions received in that time are not 
 on its literary merit, or on the personal presentation of 
 the views of the writer of this book, but on the value 
 of the thought which he presents. The five words ex- 
 press it in its entirety — "a chapel in every home." 
 
A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 53 
 
 HOW THE WORLD RECEIVED THE MESSAGE. 
 
 The vision of the millennium itself seems to glow 
 in the prophecies of what the realization of "A Chapel 
 in Fiveiy Home" means to those who have written on 
 the subject. Anglican, Baptist, Catholic, Christian, 
 Congregationalist, Episcopalian, Hebrew, Lutheran, 
 Methodist, Presbyterian, Salvationist, college presi- 
 dent, lawj-er and captains of industrj^ Their views fol- 
 low: 
 
 His Eminence Cardinal 'Council, Boston, Mass. : 
 
 '' 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I stand for the 
 principle which you assert ; that is, family prayer and 
 the sacredness of the home. Those who can put aside 
 a small room as an oratoiy would soon realize in its 
 possession what they have missed without it. I hope 
 that the movement you are setting on foot will bring 
 good results." 
 
 His Eminence Cardinal Falconio, Washington, D. 
 C, Apostolic Delegate to the United States : 
 
 " 'A Chapel in Every Home.' Your project has 
 my warmest sympathy. Indeed there was a time when, 
 I believe, there was not a single Christian family 
 which did not have either a regular Chapel or a Cross 
 — the sign of our Redemption — or a Sacred Image in 
 some part of the house, apt to elevate the mind to the 
 contemplation of God and His Di\ane Attributes, and 
 to excite the heart to sentiments of love and veneration 
 for God's boundless goodness and His Holy Laws. 
 This pious custom is general even now amongst our 
 Catholic people. Almost general also is the pious 
 practice of Catholic families to kneel down in prayer 
 either in common or separately at night before going 
 to rest, ^lay God grant that this religious practice 
 may continue and become universal in every Christian 
 family not only for the welfare of the home but also 
 of the Nation of which the familv is the natural basis." 
 
54 
 
 A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 
 
 His Eminence James Cardinal Gibbons, Arch- 
 bishop of Baltimore, Md. : 
 
 " 'A Chapel in Eveiy Home.' The Catholic 
 Church has always recommended most strongly the 
 beautiful practice of family prayer in common as one 
 of the best means for the preservation of religion and 
 purity in the home, and the faithful are always ex- 
 horted to have in their home a little oratory around 
 which the family could gather to offer up their prayers 
 to God." 
 
 The Most Eev, WilUam Alexander, Archbishop, 
 Primate of all Ireland and Metropolitan : 
 
 " 'A Chapel in Eveiy Home,' I think that a special 
 place for prayer and meditation is a great help in 
 the spiritual life, a center for religious and moral 
 strength and uplift in the home," 
 
 The Most Eev. Walter John Forbes Eobberds, 
 Archbishop and Prunus of all Scotland: 
 
 ''I can only say from personal experience that it 
 is a real help to the religious life of the family and to 
 one's o"\vn, to have an oratory or chapel in one's home." 
 
 The Most Eev. John Baptist Crozier, Archbishop, 
 Primate of all Ireland and Metropolitan. Transferred 
 1911 from the Bishopric of Down, Connor and Drom- 
 ore, as successor to the late Most Eev. William Alex- 
 ander, D. D. : 
 
 " 'A Chapel in Every Home' reached me at a time 
 when I was greatly regretting the absence of a Private 
 Chapel at the See House — CuUoden. Your letter was 
 the deciding weight in the scales and I hope, please 
 God, to dedicate a private chapel for all time, wliich we 
 have built at a cost of £300, generously provided for me 
 and my successors in this Bishopric." 
 
A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 55 
 
 The Most Rev. Samuel Pritchard Matheson, Arch- 
 bishop of Rupert's Land, Primate of all Canada: 
 
 " 'A Chapel in Every Home,* T have read it with 
 deep interest and after doin*; so I feel that you are 
 conferring a great benefit on the Christian world by 
 its publication. To indicate to you what is my o\m 
 conviction on the question I venture simply to say this : 
 In a recent visit to Eastern Canada I was asked to ad- 
 dress a mass meeting in connection with a conference 
 for the deepening of spiritual life. I took as my theme 
 what I considered to be ' the weak spot ' in our modern 
 Christian life and effort, and I had no hesitation in 
 putting down as the weak spot ^the want of religion in 
 the Home life. ' Religion in our day is transferred too 
 much away from and not to the home. The sacred 
 prerogative of father and mother in the training of the 
 family is being abrogated and relegated to persons 
 outside the home. The consequence is, that notwith- 
 standing all the richness of modern Christian effort, 
 notwithstanding the manifold activities of all the 
 Churches, results are not encouraging and are certainly 
 not commensurate with the efforts put forth. The weak- 
 ness is, I believe, to be found at the springs from which 
 the units which make up our communities flow, viz., 
 the homes. Your endeavor is to improve conditions. 
 In this respect, to make 'Bethels in our Christian 
 homes.' May God bless this endeavor and croA\ni it 
 with the success it so richly desen^es." 
 
 The Most Rev. Reginald Stephen Copleston, 
 Primate and Metropolitan of India and Ceylon: 
 
 '' *A Chapel in Every Home' is a valuable sug- 
 gestion, and well put, and I hope by God's blessings it 
 will help many." 
 
 The Most Rev. Enos Nuttall, Archbishop and 
 Primate of West Indies: 
 
 *' 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I have endeavored 
 
56 A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 
 
 in various ways to bring the suggestion to the notice 
 of our Church people here, and I hope that these ef- 
 forts will, at least in some cases, have a satisfactory 
 result.*^ 
 
 The Most Rev. St. Clair George Alfred Donaldson, 
 Archbishop of Brisbin and Metropolitan of Queens- 
 land, Australia : 
 
 ' ' I am a great believer in the practice of separat- 
 ing a room in our private houses for the purpose of 
 prayer and meditation. I am sure it makes for a 
 deeper spiritual life and for that which is so difficult 
 to maintain in these busy days." 
 
 The Most Rev. John Ireland, Archbishop of St. 
 Paul: 
 
 ' ' The idea of a chapel in every home is beautiful — 
 most Christian-like and worthy of the earnest atten 
 tion of all those who have at heart the Christian life 
 of the home. I have shown your booklet to several 
 clergymen and they are all enchanted mth it. As oc 
 casion may offer I shall strive to recommend effectively 
 the idea of 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I hope that it 
 will find many faithful adherents." 
 
 The Most Rev. William Oldfield Burrows, Arch- 
 bishop of Capetown and Metropolitan of South Africa : 
 
 "I am desired by the Archbishop of Capetown to 
 acknowledge receipt of your book 'A Chapel in Every 
 Home,' to convey to you his sense of the value of the 
 suggestion you advocate." 
 
 The Most Rev. James Edward Quigley, Arch- 
 bishop of Chicago : 
 
 " 'A Chapel in Every Home.' Needless to say, I 
 
A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 57 
 
 am witli you, heart and soul, in this very excellent mis- 
 sion which you have taken upon yourself, and I will 
 do all 1 can to encourage amongst our people, rich and 
 poor, the revival of this ancient Catholic custom." 
 
 The Most Rev. John J. Keane, Archbishop of 
 Dubuque : 
 
 ''May God prosper your endeavor that there be a 
 little sanctuary of prayer in every home. And may 
 the spirit of prayer, thus fostered in all hearts, draw 
 all souls closer to Jesus our Saviour and to our Father 
 in Heaven." 
 
 General William Booth, Founder and Commander- 
 in-Chief of the Salvation Army, by Colonel Theodore 
 Kitchens, International Headquarters, The Salvation 
 Army, London, Eng. : 
 
 "General Booth desires me to acknowledge his re- 
 ceipt of your letter, together with booklet 'A Chapel 
 in Every Home,' accompanj-ing same. He is fully 
 alive to the importance of the suggestion therein made, 
 indeed, it has his warm approval." 
 
 Ballington Booth, President of the Volunteers of 
 America : 
 
 "Permit me to add the testimony of my unfeigiied 
 faith in the power and influence of a Chapel in the 
 home. For years I have been a strong advocate and 
 a tenacious supporter of some chamber, however small, 
 in which we can meet and receive the benediction of 
 God and the inspiration of the Christ-spirit. The 
 library is all right for the mind but we need a sanctum 
 for the heart. 'The Chapel in the Home' will cultivate 
 lieartology, and that is more needed and momentous 
 than brainology." 
 
58 A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 
 
 BISHOPS OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL 
 CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES. 
 
 The Right Rev. William Andrew Leonard, Bishop 
 of Ohio : 
 
 *' 'A Chapel in Every Llome.' The idea involved, 
 and the practical obligation of the same, is something- 
 very impressive, and ought to result in what your 
 earnest soul desires, and I sincerely trust that this 
 endeavor mil be blest of the Heaveiily Father." 
 
 The Right Rev. Ethelbeii; Talbot, Bishop of 
 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania : 
 
 " 'A Chapel in Every Home' is a most worthy 
 contribution to the spiritual uplift of the Nation. ' ' 
 
 The Right Rev. Lewis William Burton, Bishop of 
 Lexington, Kentucky: 
 
 '' 'A Chapel in Eveiy Home.' The idea is ade- 
 quately presented. I have long mshed for something 
 that might pass as a chapel in the Episcopal Residence. 
 I feel the need of it more, now that my children have 
 grown up. The ordinary living rooms of the house 
 are associated mth social pleasures and suggest or- 
 dinarily no sacred association. You give us an ideal to 
 cherish, viz., the possession of some place or spot 
 sacred and associated with family and personal devo 
 tions and a trysting place with the Lord. I agree that 
 family prayers are somewhat disused for lack of it; 
 and perhaps the lack of it has made it easier for many 
 families to give up home. Home has not meant much 
 to them; and therefore they are ready to try to find 
 a substitute for it in the apartment house, in the hotel 
 or in the boarding-house. I earnestly pray that God 
 may bless this effort for the promotion of household 
 religion and the preservation of the highest types of 
 Anglo-Saxon home life." 
 
 The Right Rev. Frederic William Keator, Bishop 
 of Olympia: 
 
A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 59 
 
 '* *A Chapel in every Home.' Surely, "tis a con- 
 summation devoutly to be wished,' as a source of 
 power and uplift, as a center of rest and comfort which 
 in these busy days of restless living are so lacking. 
 
 "I pray that God's blessing may rest upon this 
 effort to the end that He may be better knowTi and 
 more truly sei*\'ed everj^where. " 
 
 The Right Rev. Charles Scadding, Bishop of Ore 
 gon: 
 
 " 'A Chapel in Every Home.' Truly it is 'a con- 
 summation devoutly to be wished' that in every 
 Christian home there might be some quiet, retired 
 place for family prayer, and individual intercession 
 and meditation; and I heartily commend your earnest 
 efforts to bring this about. In the plan for a Bishop's 
 house which I hope soon to build there is a place for 
 an Oratory where the daily offices can be said, and for 
 special Episcopal acts as occasion may require, but 
 for the present a comer of my study has to sen-e, and 
 has become a veritable sanctuar\\ 
 
 "Praying that Cod may abundantlv bless this pro- 
 ject." 
 
 The Right Rev. Nathaniel Sej-mour Thomas, 
 Bishop of Wyoming : 
 
 " 'A Chapel in Everj^ Home.' I know no more 
 natural expression of the worldUness of this day and 
 generation than the seeming abandonment of the pious 
 habit and goodly practice of family prayers. I would 
 to God that your efforts might serve to help restore 
 this ancient and Christian habit in every home." 
 
 The Right Rev. Cortlandt Whitehead, Bishop of 
 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : 
 
 ''Your sentiments about a place of prayer in every 
 home are shared by very many more Christian people 
 than find it practicable to carry their wishes into ef- 
 fect. For myself, in common ^vith many, if not all 
 Bishops, I have and have always had an Oratory in my 
 
60 A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 
 
 house for family prayers and occasional family Com- 
 munion Service. It is worth considering by Christian 
 people that in the majority of professedly Christian 
 homes there is absolutely no sign of our holy religion 
 visible, while in a heathen country, every house has its 
 shrine, and its household devotions," 
 
 The Right Rev. Chauncey B. Brewster, Bishop of 
 Connecticut : 
 
 '^Certainly it would be a pleasure if there might 
 be a place in every house, however small, which should 
 be a sacred shrine. It would hallow the whole house 
 and be a means toward consecrating the lives of those 
 who went in and out." 
 
 The Right Rev. Alexander Hamilton Vinton, 
 Bishop of Western Massachusetts : 
 
 "What you say about 'A Chapel in Every Home' 
 engages my sympathetic interest. My o^\^l oratoiy at 
 Bishop's House is indispensable and a place where un- 
 ceasing comfort can be found. I wish, indeed, that 
 there might be a fulfillment of your aspiration in every 
 household of the land. ' ' 
 
 The Right Rev. G. Mott Williams, Bishop of Mar- 
 quette, Mich.: 
 
 "I have long preached the oratory as one of the 
 best means to spread the Church. Our scattered 
 church families could often win many people to our 
 worship by maintaining that worship with suitable sur- 
 roundings at home. I am very much pleased with 'A 
 Chapel in Every Home,' grateful for it." 
 
 The Right Rev. Thomas F. Gailor, Bishop of Ten- 
 nessee and President of the Executive Council of the 
 Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States : 
 
 ''I quite agree with you that the life of the nation 
 ultimately depends upon the life of the Family, and 
 that therefore the devotional spirit of the Home will be 
 
A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 61 
 
 reflected in the order and institutions of Government. 
 Hoping that this appeal will meet with w^ide response." 
 
 The Right R«v. Frederick Roger Graves, Bishop 
 of Shanghai, China: 
 
 "I wish that we could do more to bring about a 
 better state of things in this regard here in China. In 
 Cliinese homes all life is lived in public, and both the 
 place and the opportunity for private prayer and 
 family worship are too often lacking. We do all we 
 can to promote religion in the family, and have done 
 something to induce our people to move on the lines 
 indicated in *A Chapel in Every Home.' " 
 
 The Right Rev. James Steptoe Johnson, Bishop 
 of West Texas : 
 
 '' *A Chapel in Every Home.' The idea is a 
 beautiful one, and I wish it could be largely acted on; 
 nothing is more needed in our times than the revival 
 of family religion, for it is the only true foundation 
 of a religion of power." 
 
 The Right Rev. F. B. Howden, Bishop of New 
 Mexico : 
 
 " 'A Chapel in Every Home.' Anything that can 
 bring to our people a forcible suggestion for promot- 
 ing religious life in our homes must be welcomed by 
 thoughtful and earnest men, and I am not surprised 
 at the commendations your book has received from so 
 many of the greatest leaders in this and other coun- 
 tries. From a patriotic as well as a religious view^- 
 point the establishing of a family Shrme or altar is 
 obx-iously of great importance, for on the character of 
 our homes must depend the character of our countiy. 
 Wliat you are contending for is of course more of a 
 restoration than an innovation, because the home 
 * chapel' is one of the most ancient traditions of the 
 human race, more ancient in fact than the church or 
 the temple. Would that we Americans might lay hold 
 of it in some such way as you advocate. Ever since I 
 obtained a 'Bishop's House' I have been plaiming a 
 
62 A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 
 
 chapel of this kind and have been conscious of the need 
 of it. Needless to say your book has served to whet 
 my desire for the achievement of my purpose. I con- 
 gTatulate you on your perseverance in your project and 
 earnestly hope that your effort will bring forth results. 
 'A Chapel in Every Home/ it is certainly an inspiring 
 ideal. How w^onderful it will be, if, under God, the 
 ideal can some day be realized." 
 
 The Eight Rev. C. P. Anderson, Bishop of 
 Chicago : 
 
 '' *A Chapel in Every Home.' It is a genuine 
 pleasure to know that such a book has been put forth. '^ 
 
 The Right Rev. Henry B. Restarick, Bishop of 
 Honolulu, T. H. : 
 
 '^ 'A Chapel in Ever^^ Home.' I believe that what 
 this Nation wants above everything is Home religion. 
 Modern life throws great difficulties in the way of 
 gathering the family together for prayer, but I cer- 
 tainly think that if there was a Chapel in Every Home 
 that there would be an immense advance on the right 
 Une." 
 
 The Right Rev. M. Edward Fawcett, Bishop of 
 Quincy, Illinois : 
 
 " 'A Chapel in Every Home.' Permit me to say 
 how much I wish that the idea could be carried into 
 effect. It has long seemed very desirable to me for 
 every Christian to have certain times and a certain 
 place for daily prayer. Your plea, that the place could 
 be a chapel properly arranged in the homes, is cer- 
 tainly true. I have found that the most practical ad- 
 vice I could give to those presented for Confirmation 
 has been in harmony with the idea of your booklet. A 
 certain place, and if possible a prepared place, for 
 prayer, helps the soul to prepare for that place our 
 Lord prepares for us." 
 
A CHAPEL IN f:VERy HOME 63 
 
 The Right Rev. Frederick Burgess, Bishop of 
 Long Island: 
 
 '* 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I find myself in 
 full accord with your ideas on the subject and wish it 
 were practicable to have them carried out." 
 
 The Right Rev. Reginald H. Weller, Bishop of 
 Fond du Lac, Wisconsin : 
 
 " 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I read it through 
 when I untied the package and before I read my let- 
 ters. May it aid, with God's blessings, in bringing a 
 Chapel to every home, at least every Christian home, 
 and may you see some of the results here and here- 
 after." 
 
 The Right Rev. Joseph M. Francis, Bishop of 
 Indianapolis : 
 
 ''I have no shadow of doubt that a place set apart 
 in every home as the place for prayer, and reserved 
 for this purpose alone, would bring an untold blessing 
 to the homes of our land. Just as the open church 
 draws many into it day by day for prayer and quiet 
 meditation, so would this sacred spot in the home draw 
 the members of the family and do much to restore the 
 lost custom of Family Prayers. The thought is an ad- 
 mirable and helpful one. ' ' 
 
 The Right Rev. AVilliam Crane Gray, Bishop of 
 Southern Florida: 
 
 ''Most earnestly do I pray for a rapidly increas- 
 ing restoration of the custom of 'Family Prayers.^ I 
 was very much impressed during botli of my visits to 
 England by the general custom which I found there of 
 the head of every family being priest in his ouni house- 
 hold and regularly conducting Family Prayer. If this 
 movement for *A Chapel in Eveiy Ilome' can arouse 
 people generally to the importance of this duty we shall 
 certainlv have reason to thank God for such a result." 
 
64 A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 
 
 The Right Eev. J. M. Kendrick, Bishop of Ari- 
 zona: 
 
 "Anything- that will encourage Family Worship 
 is valuable. If you consider my opinion as valuable at 
 all, it is expressed very heartily and very strongly in 
 favor of this movement. ' ' 
 
 The Right Rev. Joseph H. Johnson, Bishop of Los 
 Angeles, California: 
 
 "I am quite sure that you are correct about the 
 importance of a Chapel in every home, for when I 
 built my present house (now about eleven years ago) 
 much thought was given to the chapel which has been 
 a center of influence in many ways ever since. In it 
 we have our daily family prayer; very frequently at 
 its altar is the Holy Communion celebrated; confirma- 
 tions and marriages have been solemnized. I know 
 the value and importance therefore of the effort which 
 you are making." 
 
 The Right Eev. Edward R. Atwill, Bishop of West 
 Missouri : 
 
 '' 'A Chapel in Every Home.' The suggestion ap- 
 peals to me. I am sure that a room in the house con- 
 secrated to the worship of Almighty God would sanc- 
 tify the family and their dwelling place. We hear 
 much nowadays of suggestion. Undoubtedly the ora- 
 tory would silently suggest prayer and praise, and 
 many who now neglect these privileges would be re- 
 minded of them." 
 
 The Right Rev. William Neilson McVickar, Bishop 
 of Rhode Island : 
 
 '' 'A Chapel in Every Home.' It would be in- 
 deed an inestimable addition to any house and its 
 family life to have a chapel of its own for family and 
 personal worship." 
 
 The Right Rev. Ozi William Whitaker, Bishop of 
 Pennsylvania : 
 
A CHAPEL, IN EVERY HOME 65 
 
 "It has never been my experience to have a 
 Chapel in my own house or to have a room set apart as 
 a special place of prayer, but I have several times 
 made visits to houses in which there are such a separate 
 place and in every instance 1 have been impressed ^vith 
 a sense of propriety and benefit of such a holy place 
 in every home. As I look back over my life 1 feel that 
 if I had begun with such a resen'ation of some por- 
 tion of my residence it would have had a good influence 
 upon me and on the members of my family, ' * 
 
 The Right Rev. Charles C. Grafton, Bishop of 
 Fond du Lac, Wisconsin: 
 
 "I hope *A Chapel in Every Home' vdW increase 
 this setting apart in houses of places for private and 
 family prayer." 
 
 The Right Rev. Arthur L. Williams, Bishop of 
 Nebraska: 
 
 '* 'A Chapel in Every Home' emphasizes a sug- 
 gestion which I have mentioned many times in my 
 office and work as a Bishop, and points the way to a 
 restoration of that almost forgotten duty and privilege, 
 family worship." 
 
 The Right Rev. Richard Henry Nelson, Bishop 
 Coadjutor of Albany : 
 
 " 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I appreciate the 
 purpose which is obvious in your preparation of this, 
 and consider that it is most timely. ' ' 
 
 The Right Rev. Robert L. Paddock, Bishop of 
 Eastern Oregon : 
 
 ''The suggestion that in every home there should 
 be a place for prayer and meditation, a family center 
 for spiritual thought, communion and uplift, is excel- 
 lent; it would make us more loyal and loving in the 
 family, it would increase the attendance and spiritual 
 atmosphere in our churches; it would help to bind to- 
 
66 A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 
 
 getlier the whole world as children of one Father, and 
 would inspire us to make them conscientious members 
 of one family in Christ. Then there would be no more 
 selfishness, no more sin; hatred and hostilities would 
 cease. We would love God and love our neighbor also 
 and the heavenly life would begin. May God show 
 each one of us how we may hasten this day, and give 
 us the Avill and the power to make our dreams real." 
 
 The Right Rev. Henry D. Robinson, Bishop of 
 Nevada : 
 
 ' ' The idea of ' A Chapel in Every Home ' is a good 
 one. It would count much for humanity if it should 
 be put into practice." 
 
 The Right Rev. James Heartt Van Buren, Bishoi> 
 of Porto Rico : 
 
 " 'A Chapel in Every Home.' The idea is ex- 
 cellent. ' ' 
 
 The Right Rev. Ed\\dn Gardner Weed, Bishop of 
 Florida : 
 
 " 'A Chapel in Every Home.' Certainly the great 
 want in this day is religion in the household. There 
 was a time when family prayers were usual ; now they 
 have become unusual. I believe the book is calculated 
 to do a great deal of good." 
 
 The Right Rev. Davis Sessums, Bishop of Louis- 
 iana : 
 
 ''Surely, wherever a Chapel can be arranged in 
 the home it would be a very real spiritual help to the 
 family — calling to prayer and bringing a beautiful in- 
 fluence for good." 
 
 The Right Rev. Cleland K. Nelson, Bishop of At- 
 lanta : 
 
A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 67 
 
 "The force which is most needed to bring back 
 our people to their allegiance and to keep the children 
 in the paths of truth and virtue is the family altar. To 
 make this concrete is a great step toward estabUshing 
 and confirming family worship. Your position is well 
 reinforced by the wise words of some of our Most 
 Reverend Fathers." 
 
 The Right Rev. John McKim, Bishop of Tokyo, 
 Japan: 
 
 **If every home were a House of Prayer many of 
 the problems would be solved that trouble society and 
 the nations. If a man in his daily home life does his 
 duty to God, he will find it much easier to do his duty 
 tow^ard his neighbor. ' ' 
 
 The Right Rev. Junius M. Horner, Bishop of Ashe- 
 viUe, N. C. : 
 
 ''The suggestion is timely and will do much good." 
 
 The Right Rev. James B. Funsten, Bishop of 
 Idaho : 
 
 "Undoubtedly it is a most important thing to do 
 all in our power to kindle the fire of religion on the 
 altar of the homes of our American people, else Chris- 
 tianity itself will lose its hold upon our Nation." 
 
 The Right Rev. Charles Heniy Brent, Bishop of 
 the Philippine Islands : 
 
 " 'A Chapel in Eveiy Home' commends itself to 
 one who for upwards of twenty years has never been 
 without an oratoiy in his home. I wish indeed we 
 could arouse the heads of families in our country to a 
 realization of their dignity as priests of their respec- 
 tive households. When worship in the home is once 
 again restored the churches will not stand in need of 
 worshippers." 
 
68 A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 
 
 The Right Rev. Rogers Israel, Bishop of Erie, 
 Pennsylvania : 
 
 '' 'A Chapel in Every Home.' May I not wish you 
 God-speed in the great work you have undertaken, and 
 assure you of my hearty co-operation." 
 
 The Right Rev. William Hall Moreland, Bishop of 
 Sacramento, California : 
 
 ''The subject of a Chapel in Every Home appeals 
 to me powerfully. I feel the need of a sacred corner 
 or niche in the homes of us all. Write me again, count 
 mo as a true ally and co-worker." 
 
 The Right Rev. Phillip M. Rhinelander, Bishop of 
 Pennsylvania : 
 
 ' ' I feel very deeply with you that the nation rests 
 on the home, and the home rests on home religion. I 
 also recognize the force of the idea that a chapel in 
 every home would go a long way towards preserving 
 the ideal of family religion as well as the practice of 
 it." 
 
 The Right Rev. Alfred Harding, Bishop of Wash- 
 ington, D. C. : 
 
 " 'A Chapel in Every Home.' The suggestion 
 conveyed by the title and the reinforcement of it by 
 the weighty letters of the prominent Bishops, makes it 
 indeed a valuable Tractate. I am quite sure that there 
 could be nothing better for family life and for the 
 Church than family religion at the family altar." 
 
 The Right Rev. J. Frederick Kinsman, Bishop of 
 Delaware : 
 
 "Thank you for the copy of 'A Chapel in Every 
 Home,' mth the theme of which I am in entire sym- 
 pathy. I notice that in the letter sent you by Bishop 
 Coleman he speaks of the Chapel of the Good Shepherd 
 
A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 69 
 
 in his house. I caii add my o^\Tl testimony to the 
 value of it not only for use but also as a reminder and 
 silent \vitness." 
 
 The Right Rev. Frederick P. Reese, Bishop of 
 Georgia : 
 
 ** *A Chapel in Every Home.' I have read it with 
 much interest and tnist that it may be effective in 
 promoting a revival of the practice of family worship. 
 I am sure that a decline in this practice is a very 
 serious hindrance to religion and I think that every 
 earnest Christian should labor and pray for this re- 
 vival." 
 
 The Right Rev. Charles Tyler Olmsted, Bishop of 
 Central New York : 
 
 '* 'A Chapel in Every Home.^ In these days 
 when so many * Family Altars' seem to have fallen 
 do^\^^, and the voice of prayer and praise is not heard 
 in such households, it is certainly well to remind 
 peoi)le of the duty which they neglect and of the 
 privilege which they lose. I have an 'oratory' in my 
 own home, and have often remarked that since we have 
 separate rooms for eating, and talking, and sleeping, 
 it is certainly quite as important to have, where it is 
 possible, a room also for praying. Why not? " 
 
 The Right Rev. William Montgomery Bro^vn, 
 Bishop of Arkansas : 
 
 ''With every good wash for 'A Chapel in Every 
 Home.' " 
 
 The Right Rev. Theodore Du Bose Bratton, Bishop 
 of Mississippi: 
 
 '* 'A Chapel in Ever\^ Home.' The theme is per- 
 tinent, and it is presented in a very striking way. It 
 will help me in presenting the subject as I am con- 
 stantly doing." 
 
70 A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 
 
 The Right Rev. John N. MoCormick, Bishop of 
 Western Michigan : 
 
 ''Such a movement as 'A Chapel in Every Home' 
 is certainly much needed and such results as those 
 suggested are much to be desired." 
 
 The Right Rev. Cameron Mann, Bishop of North 
 Dakota: 
 
 '' 'A Chapel in Every Home.' Of course it 
 presents an ideal which in many, perhaps most cases, 
 would not be realized. But that is the case with all 
 novel ideas. A Chapel room in a house cannot by 
 itself create worship there. But it does suggest and 
 invite to worship. And I can believe that if each de- 
 cent tenement had its little chapel the tenants would 
 treat the building more carefully and pay the rent 
 more promptly ; also that the landlord would treat his 
 tenants more generously." 
 
 The Right Rev. William Lawrence, Bishop of 
 Massachusetts : 
 
 '' 'A Chapel in Every Home.' Such publications 
 toward development of the religion in the family life 
 must be helpful, especially in these days, when the 
 pressure of other interests is so heavy." 
 
 The Right Rev. George W. Peterkin, Bishop of 
 West Virginia : 
 
 "The subject of 'A Chapel in Every Home' is cer- 
 tainly very attractive. ' ' 
 
 The Right Rev. Sidney C. Partridge, Bishop of 
 Kyoto, Japan: 
 
 "I beg to say that I am most heartily in favor of 
 * A Chapel in Everv^ Home' as I understand it and have 
 for years tried to bring my people up to the ideal laid 
 down by Canon Liddon on this subject. T have not 
 only always had a Chapel in my own home, but in both 
 
A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 71 
 
 China ajid Japan Ikave tried to educate my people up 
 to the same standard. I may say that it is really 
 much easier to do this with the Oriental people, with 
 whom the idea of the 'Household Shrines' is such a 
 strong one, than it is with many of our Western lands 
 who seem to have drifted away from the conception 
 almost entirelv." 
 
 The Right Rev. William Paret, Bishop of Mary- 
 land : 
 
 "I am greatly pleased with 'A Chapel in Every 
 Home' and sincerely hope it will have excellent effect." 
 
 The Right Rev. Nathaniel L. Thomas, Bishop of 
 Wyoming : 
 
 (Second letter.) 
 
 *'I have, in mj^ house, now built in my study, a 
 little chapel which is consecrated wholly to the purpose 
 of worship. This is not a separate room, as I could 
 not spare the space, but it is shut off from the room 
 by a curtain. May God grant that your labors in this 
 propaganda which you have undertaken may be uni- 
 versally used." 
 
 ENDORSEMENT BY HOUSE OF BISHOPS. 
 
 The Protestant Episcopal Church in the United 
 States. 
 
 The General Convention, St. Louis, Mo., 1916. 
 
 The Right Rev. Daniel S. Tuttle, Presiding Bishop : 
 
 '*No better help to the Christian cause can come 
 than the emphasizing of the value of home religion and 
 worship. I shall take pleasure in presenting to the 
 House of Bishops vour petition for 'A Chapel in Every 
 Home.' " 
 
 The Right Rev. Wm. Hall Moreland, Bishop of 
 Sacramento, California, and Chairman of the Joint 
 
72 A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 
 
 Commission on Home and Family Life, General Con 
 vention, St. Louis, Mo., October 23, 1916 : 
 
 ''The General Convention has received with pro- 
 found sympathy and approval your proposal with ref- 
 erence to a Chapel in Every Home. It was referred to 
 the Committee on Memorials, which reported it to the 
 House of Bishops with, unanimous commendation. It 
 was also commended to the attention of the Committee 
 on the Pastoral Letter. 
 
 *'A further Joint Commission on Home and 
 Family Life has been created, consisting of five 
 bishops, five presbyters and five laymen. Of this Com- 
 mission the undersigned is Chairman. Be sure that 
 your proposal will be earnestly considered by the Com- 
 mission, and anything more bearing upon it will be 
 entertained and welcomed if sent to my home address." 
 
 The General Convention, House of Bishops, the 
 Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States, St. 
 Louis, Mo., 1916. 
 
 Report of the Committee on Memorials and Peti- 
 tions : 
 
 An appeal has been received from Joseph R. Wil- 
 son, Esq., Philadelphia, to the General Convention that 
 it sanction and approve the idea of ''A Chapel in 
 Every Home," which is that there be set apart wher- 
 ever possible, in every dwelling now erected, and that 
 there be included in every dwelling hereafter erected, 
 one room, small or large as circumstances may permit, 
 specially dedicated to Almighty God as the religious 
 center around which the domestic life shall revolve. 
 
 The Committee offers the following resolution : 
 
 Resolved: That this House is in hearty sympathy 
 with the devout purpose of the petitioner; it realizes 
 how sadly the practices of prayer and family worship 
 are neglected and crowded out by the conditions of 
 
A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 73 
 
 modern life. It recognizes the practical difficulties of 
 securing privacy and seclusion for spiritual exercises 
 amid present day conditions of apartments, tenements, 
 flats and crowded living quarters. It would rejoice to 
 see the idea of the petitioner carried out, and believes 
 that it might be more frequently realized in the larger 
 mansions and spacious residences erected or occupied 
 by Christian people. This House therefore gives its 
 warm endorsement to this appeal, especially so far as 
 it applies to the deepening of the religious hfe of the 
 home and the practice of Family Prayers, and com- 
 mends the whole matter to the consideration of the 
 Committee on Pastoral Letter. 
 
 This report was referred to the Committee on Pas- 
 toral Letter. 
 
 Samuel. Hart, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 The Right Rev. Ethelbert Talbot, Bishop of Beth 
 lehem, Pa. : 
 
 "Nothing could bo more important than for the 
 Church to lay strongest emphasis on the valuable sug- 
 gestion of *A Chapel in Every Home.' The House of 
 BisJwps unanimously passed the enclosed resolution. 
 I feel convinced that you will be greatly gratified to 
 receive this Resolution on this project so vital to the 
 spiritual welfare of God's people everywhere." 
 
 METHODIST EPISCOPAL BISHOPS IN THE 
 UNITED STATES. 
 
 The Right Rev. Henrj^ Spellmeyer, Bishop, M. E. 
 Church, St. Louis, Mo. : 
 
 '' *A Chapel in Every Home' and a mid-week 
 prayer service attended by the members of every 
 family would soon bring the w^orld to Christ, and 
 Christ back to the world." 
 
74 A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 
 
 The Right Rev. John L. Nuelson, Bishop, M. E. 
 Church, Omaha, Nebraska : 
 
 " 'A Chapel in Eveiy Home.' I am veiy much 
 impressed with the sentiments expressed therein.'^ 
 
 The Right Rev. Earl Cranston, Bishop, M. E. 
 Church, Washington, D. C. : 
 
 "Worship in every home, certainly. 'A Chapel 
 in Every Home' where it is practical. Yes — giving 
 that demand precedence over the music room or dan 
 cing room." 
 
 The Right Rev. J. W. Basford, Bishop, M. E. 
 Church, Pekin, China : 
 
 "If 'A Chapel in Every Home' shall result in the 
 re-establishment of the family altar in American 
 homes, it w^ill prove a priceless contribution to Ameri- 
 can civilization." 
 
 The Right Rev. William F. McDowell, Bishop, M. 
 E. Church, Chicago : 
 
 "I am sure all who have any interest in the home 
 and family life of the nation, and therefore in the na- 
 tional life itself, must agree with the general idea and 
 principle of 'A Chapel in Every Home.' " 
 
 The Right Rev. William F. Anderson, Bishop, M. 
 E. Church, Chattanooga, Tenn.: 
 
 " 'A Chapel in Every Home.' The amount of 
 good that can be accomplished by this method is al- 
 most incalculable. The home after all lies at the 
 foundation of our progress, of both our commonwealth 
 and the nation." 
 
 The Right Rev. Luther B. Wilson, Resident Bishop, 
 M. E. Church, Philadelpliia : 
 
 " 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I wish that it were 
 
A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 
 
 ■5 
 
 possible for every home to have such a place for prayer 
 and meditation/ The importance of family religion 
 cannot be too strongly stated. Hoping that this book- 
 let may not only awaken thought but lead also to con- 
 viction and appropriate action." 
 
 HOW THE ANGLICAN BISHOPS THROUGHOUT 
 THE WORLD RECEIVED THE MESSAGE. 
 
 The Right Rev. and Hon. Edward Carr Glyn, 
 Bishop of Peterborough, England: 
 
 ** *A Chapel in Every Home.' There is no doubt 
 that anything that can increase the Sanctity of the 
 41ome' life must be a great advantage, and your pro- 
 posal tends decidedly that way, and should therefore 
 meet with encouragement." 
 
 The Right Rev. William Boyd Carpenter, Bishop 
 of Ripon, England: 
 
 " ' A Chapel in Every Home. ' It \vould be a very 
 great thing if this should lead to a revival of family 
 prayer in at least all Christian households. ' ' 
 
 The Right Rev. John Nathaniel Quirk, Bishop Suf- 
 fragan, of Sheffield, England : 
 
 ** *A Chapel in Every Home.' My assurances of 
 the earnest hope I have that this effort may be blessed 
 to the increase of private prayer, personal consecration 
 and Religion in the Home." 
 
 The Right Rev. John William Diggle, Bishop of 
 Carlisle, England: 
 
 ** 'A Chapel in Every Home.' AMierever such a 
 chapel is practicable it is beneficent, and I believe with 
 you that it is far more generally practicable than is 
 commonly supposed. Much of the prevalent decay of 
 public worship is, I think, due to the neglect of con- 
 stantly teaching from the pulpit the duty and value 
 of family worship. ' ' 
 
76 A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 
 
 The Right Rev. George Nickson, Bishop of Jarrow, 
 England : 
 
 *' 'A Chapel in Every Home.' The idea is a use- 
 ful one and its carrying out would produce a move- 
 ment toward truer spiritual life in many a home.'' 
 
 The Right Rev. George Rodney Eden, Bishop of 
 Wakefield, England: 
 
 ''I hope 'A Chapel in Every Home' will be pro- 
 ductive of a great deal of good." 
 
 The Right Rev. S. E. Marsden, Assistant Bishop 
 of Bristol, England : 
 
 '* 'A Chapel in Eveiy Home.' I cordially agree 
 that w^herever practicable it is most desirable that 
 there should be a room set apart for the purpose of 
 family worship, and also for private prayer and 
 meditation in every home." 
 
 The Right Rev. Arthur Hamilton Baynes, Assist- 
 ant Bishop of Southwell, England : 
 
 "I have perused 'A Chapel in Every Home' with 
 much interest, and sympathize with its views." 
 
 The Right Rev. John P. A. Bowers, Bishop Suf- 
 ragan of Thetf ord, Norfolk, England : 
 
 ** 'A Chapel in Eveiy Home.' I think the sug- 
 gestion is admirable, and I will take any steps I can 
 to further it in this part of the world." 
 
 The Right Rev. John Wordsworth, Bishop of Sal- 
 isbury, England; 
 
 **The Bishop desires me to say that he is greatly 
 interested in *A Chapel in Every Home' and in the 
 object at which it aims." 
 
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 The Right Rev. W. II. Yeatman-Biggs, Bishop of 
 Worcester : 
 
 "I am directed by the Bishop of Worcester to 
 thank yoii for your book 'A Chapel in Every Home.* 
 The Bishop entirely agrees with you that the home and 
 family life is the comer stone on which rests national 
 life and progress." 
 
 The Right Rev. Henry Lake Paget, Bishop Suf- 
 ragan, Stepney, England : 
 
 "The Bishop of Stepney asks me to write and 
 thank you most warmly for your book, and to say that 
 he thinks that some small room set apart for prayer 
 would do much to deepen and brighten the spiritual 
 life in the household." 
 
 The Right Rev. Edgar Charles Sumner Gibson, 
 Bishop of Gloucester, England : 
 
 '' *A Chapel in Every Home.' The suggestion in 
 it is well worthy of consideration and I should be glad 
 to see it carried out as far as possible." 
 
 The Right Rev. John Dowden, Bishop of Edin- 
 burgh, Scotland: 
 
 '* 'A Chapel in Every Home.' With the idea that 
 underlies it, I entirely concur; but for the very poor 
 there is a practical impossibility. Long ago I have 
 said, puttmg this matter on an obviously reasonable 
 footing, 'In every home that can have a billiard room, 
 there ought to be a chapel.' Of course one may go a 
 little farther than that." 
 
 The Right Rev. Rowland Ellis, Bishop of Aber- 
 deen and Orkney: 
 
 " 'A Chapel in Every Home.' So great is the 
 influence that the home life exercises upon the hfe of 
 the nation that whatever tends to raise and elevate the 
 home must prove a national blessing." 
 
78 A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 
 
 Bishop Ellis, of Aberdeen and Orkney, in an ad- 
 dress before the Church Congress at Swansea in 1909, 
 made an eloquent appeal for the sanctification of the 
 family life. He said: 
 
 "Personal religion, the spiritual life of the in- 
 di\idual — this, in its various aspects, has a very real 
 place in our thoughts as Christians, The life of the 
 Church, its growth and development — this, too, oc- 
 cupies much of our attention. The life of the nation 
 and that which makes for national well-being and na- 
 tional greatness — this again comes continually before 
 us in one form or another. It is right that we should 
 dwell on these things, but do we dwell sufficiently on 
 the life of the family? Do we sufficiently consider that 
 the foundation of the national life is the home, that it 
 comes first in the order of time, and first in the order 
 of importance; that the nation rises or siiiks just in 
 proportion as its families are pure or otherwise; that 
 if you want to raise the nation and to purify the 
 country you must first of all raise the family and 
 purify the home? 
 
 "The sanctification of family life, then, is a sub- 
 ject that may well occupy the attention of this Con- 
 gress. What do we mean by the sanctification of 
 family life? We mean that the home should be a 
 dwelling in which Christ abides by the power of the 
 Holy Ghost the Sanctifier, in which the all-pervading 
 presence of Christ makes its influence felt, in which 
 all the members are united to Christ, and to each other 
 in Christ, so that all the details of home life are hal- 
 lowed by His consecrating touch, and the home be- 
 comes the abode of happiness because the abode of 
 holiness." 
 
 The Eight Eev. Charles Frederick D'Arcy, Bishop 
 of Ossory, Kilkenny, Ireland. Transferred 1911 to 
 the Bishopric of Down, Connor and Dromore : 
 
 " 'A Chapel in Every Home.' The idea set forth 
 therein with so much clearness and earnestness is cer^ 
 tainly one which makes for spirituality and devotion. 
 In the rush that marks the present age there is danger 
 
A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 79 
 
 lest family worship should be forgotten. Also I hold 
 that the public worshij) of the church, important though 
 it be, can never take the place of 'Family Prayers.' " 
 
 The Right Rev. William Arthur Ilolbech, Bishop 
 of the Island of St. Helena: 
 
 "The custom of Family PrajTr is not so general 
 now as f onnerly, and I hope * A Chapel in Every Home ' 
 may be effective in restoring the use of that very 
 valuable act of devotion." 
 
 The Right Rev. Alfred Clifford, Bishop of Luck 
 now, India: 
 
 "I have a chapel in my own home, and wherever 
 I may be in the future, hope to be able to devote a 
 room to this purpose. ' ' 
 
 The Right Rev. Francis A. Gregory, Bishop of the 
 Island of Mauritius: 
 
 " 'A Chapel in Ever}^ Home.' I think it is im- 
 possible not to sympathize fully with this endeavor 
 though it is so easy to see the difficulties in the way 
 of its realization. I cannot doubt that it will produce 
 some effect and the mere fact of bringing the idea be- 
 fore people's minds will be fruitful." 
 
 The Right Rev, John Francis Welsh, Bishop of 
 Trinidad, W. I. : 
 
 "I cordially join my brethren and other Bishops 
 who have previously written, in approval of 'A Chapel 
 in Everj^ Home.' Everything that tends to sanctify 
 and bless the Home and home life must inevitably re- 
 act on the Civic and National life." 
 
 The Right Rev. William M. Cameron, Bishop Co- 
 adjutor, of Capeto^^^l, Africa: 
 
 " *A Chapel in Every Home.' It is an excellent 
 idea, v;hich, if carried out, would, I am sure, give a 
 brighter spiritual tone and much spiritual strength 
 and comfort to manv a familv," 
 
80 A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 
 
 The Right Rev. William Willcox Perrin, Bishop of 
 British Columbia: 
 
 "May the distribution of *A Chapel in Every 
 Home' be a real help, and produce results. Personally 
 I can testify to the great spiritual advantage it is to 
 have a small Oratory in the home. It makes a dif- 
 ference in the Family Prayers, and for private devo- 
 tion it is indeed a blessing and aid to devotion. We 
 value a short Service in the middle of the day which 
 any visitors who happen to come to luncheon gladly 
 attend.^' 
 
 The Right Rev. George Alfred Lefroy, Bishop of 
 Lahore, Punjab, India: 
 
 "I must unreservedly accept the position main- 
 tained in *A Chapel in Eveiy Home.' I have always 
 had the advantage of a 'Chapel in the Home' myself, 
 both during 20 years when I was a member of the 
 Cambridge Mission at Delhi, and since I became a 
 Bishop, and I know how invaluable an addition it is 
 to the life of any home. I earnestly trust that the 
 booklet may be widely read and produce much etfect." 
 
 The Right Rev. William Edmund Smith, Bishop 
 of Lebombo, Africa: 
 
 *' 'A Chapel in Every Home.^ May I express the 
 hope that you will not allow the matter to drop, for 
 the modern disregard of domestic religion is a matter 
 which ought to be seriously considered by all religious 
 people. It is saddening to notice the increasing num- 
 ber of homes where even grace at meals has been al- 
 lowed to drop. A revolution of the character of your 
 proposal cannot be accomplished mthout a great deal 
 of hard work on the part of the few who are keen. I 
 hope you may succeed in inspiring a considerable num- 
 ber of lay-men to join you in the work.'^ 
 
 The Right Rev. Cecil Wilson, Bishop of Melanesia, 
 New Zealand: 
 
 '' 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I have no doubt 
 
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 whatever that there should be in ever}^ home a place 
 set apart for communion with God; a place where at 
 any time one can be hidden in His tabernacle; a sanc- 
 tuary out of which we can see things as God sees them. 
 There is nothing so helpful as a chapel in the home, 
 and after reading what you and others have said on 
 the subject, probably some who had thought it impos- 
 sible to provide themselves with one, will fit up some 
 room or cupboard for the purpose.'^ 
 
 The Right Rev. George Horsfall Frodsham, 
 Bishop of North Queensland, Australia : 
 
 **I welcome very heartily the idea of a chapel in 
 each home where all the household, from the master 
 to the maid servant, can go for prayer. Before I built 
 a tiny wooden chapel outside, I set apart a room, as 
 you did, in my house. Not one of us failed to value 
 it.^' 
 
 The Right Rev. Thomas Henry Armstrong, Bishop 
 of Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia : 
 
 "It would be a blessing indeed if the idea of 'A 
 Chapel in Every Home' could be carried out. I am 
 sorry to say that in these days, prayer is too often 
 neglected — both family and private. If some such 
 idea as this could become general and a place be set 
 apart for worship in every home, it would do much to 
 remedy the evil." 
 
 The Right Rev. Arthur AVellesley Pain, Bishop of 
 Gippsland, Province of Victoria, Australia : 
 
 '*I most heartily agree that the home and the 
 family is the cornerstone on which rests national life 
 and progress. Anything that aims at strengthening 
 and uplifting home life is worthy of our fullest sym- 
 pathy. *A Chapel in Eveiy Home' seems to me well 
 calculated to accomplish the important object it has 
 in view. ' ' 
 
 The Right Rev. John I). Langley, Bishop of Ben- 
 digo, Victoria, Australia : 
 
82 A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 
 
 "The subject is one which I think has a most im- 
 portant bearing on the future life of Christian people." 
 
 The Right Rev. Charles Oliver Mules, Bishop of 
 Nelson, New Zealand : 
 
 *' 'A Chapel in Ever>' Home.' It brings to mind 
 and enforces a duty too frequently altogether neg- 
 lected, especially in a young country, such as New Zea- 
 land. To make the provision for its fulfillment, which 
 is suggested by you, would not be too difficult for at 
 least some persons, but hitherto I have onjy met with 
 it in the homes of the clergy of my own Church. ' ' 
 
 The Right Rev. John Edward Mercer, Bishop of 
 Tasmania : 
 
 '* *A Chapel in Every Home.' The idea which is 
 therein stressed is most valuable. Sincerely trusting 
 that the effort may bear good fruit." 
 
 The Right Rev. John Edward Mercer, Bishop of 
 Bishop of Goulburn, New South Wales : 
 
 '* *A Chapel in Every Home.' I am sure it will 
 do much good, and tend to home and family worship." 
 
 The Right Rev. Moore R. Neylan, Bishop of Auck- 
 land, New Zealand : 
 
 " 'A Chapel in Every Home.' If widely adopted 
 is bound to bring blessing to individuals, and to na- 
 tions. The very strongest bulwark to family life is 
 family prayer." 
 
 The Right Rev. George Thomeloe, Bishop of Al- 
 goma, Ontario, Canada: 
 
 '* 'A Chapel in Every Home.' If we could but in- 
 duce our people to w^orship God at home they would 
 be less inclined to neglect Him elsewhere. I trust that 
 God mav richlv bless this effort." 
 
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 The Right Rev. John Grisdale, Bishop of Qu'Ap- 
 pelle, Canada : 
 
 ** There can be no doubt that the phices in which 
 family prayer is held beebme hallowed by many sweet 
 memories. If there could be a special place in each 
 home for this purpose, it would, 1 believe, be of great 
 service. May God bless this elfort." 
 
 The Right Rev. William Cyprian Pinkham, Bishop 
 of Calgaiy, Canada: 
 
 ''The suggestion conveyed in the title 'A Chapel 
 in Every Home' is admirable, and I shall veiy gladly 
 do anything in my power to disseminate the idea and 
 urge that in every home, wherever practicable, there 
 should be a place for prayer and meditation." 
 
 The Right Rev. William Lennox Mills, Bishop of 
 Ontario, Canada: 
 
 '' 'A Chapel in Every Home.' A room set apart 
 as a chapel in a home, would be likely to encourage 
 reverence, and a spirit of worship amongst the mem- 
 bers of the family, and insure family worship, which is 
 so generally neglected in this work-a-day materialistic 
 age. ' ' 
 
 The Right Rev. Andrew H. Dunn, Bishop of 
 Quebec : 
 
 '^ 'A Chapel in Every Home' deals with a highly 
 important subject and it would be good indeed if we 
 could lead all our people who have rooms in their 
 homes for various purposes to set apart one for 
 prayer and praise." 
 
 The Right Rev. James Fielding Sweeney, Bishop 
 of Toronto : 
 
 *' 'A Chapel in Every Home' is certainly a reason- 
 able ideal in every Christian household. If, as the 
 
84 A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 
 
 evidence is, there was a sacred spot where the patri- 
 arch was wont to stand before the Lord, Gen. 19 : v. 27, 
 it surely follows that there should be in eveiy Chris- 
 tian home, some little area to which the devout might 
 withdraw to pray. The influence of such a spot would 
 be incalculable. Why, if the family altar was set up, 
 rather than making the dining room table its substitute, 
 how frequently in after life would the scattered mem- 
 bers of the family return in thought and catch anew 
 the sacred spirit of the spot.^' 
 
 The Right Rev. Joseph Lofthouse, Bishop of 
 Keewatin, Canada: 
 
 ''There is to my mind a real danger in making our 
 religion one only of 'Church' and not 'Home.' Any- 
 thing to help on this 'Home' side of religion I most 
 gladly welcome." 
 
 The Right Rev. John Pliilip DeMoulin, Bishop of 
 Niagara, Canada: 
 
 " 'A Chapel in Every Home.' While in Canada 
 we may have more observance of Family Prayers than 
 you have in the U. S. A., we are, I fear, declining in 
 that great matter, and so I trust your publication may 
 through the Bishops, be a timely call to reformation. 
 The setting apart in every home of a room to be used 
 as a Chapel would be in itself a recognition of the 
 privilege of Family Prayer and a reminder of its 
 neglect when not used. I hope this effort may do much 
 good in a matter of so great interest and importance." 
 
 The Right Rev. William D. Reeve, Assistant 
 Bishop of Toronto, Canada: 
 
 "You have put your finger on a weak spot in our 
 family life. It would be a great uplift if Family 
 Prayer could be re-established in the home, or if in- 
 dividuals would regard one spot in it as the 'chapel.' 
 'A Chapel in Eveiw Home' is calculated to help towards 
 that end. Praying that its circulation will have the re- 
 sult desired." 
 
A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 85 
 
 THE GREAT TRIBUTE TO THE MESSAGE FROM 
 MINISTERS OF DIFFERENT DENOMINATIONS. 
 
 The Rev. Ernest M. Stires, Rector of St. Thomas' 
 Church, New York : 
 
 "The words of St. Paul in his letter to Philemon, 
 'The Church in thy house,' have always suggested to 
 me the family oratory, as well as the Christian family. 
 The value of such a chapel is not restricted to those 
 who use it for purposes of devotion. It is an eloquent 
 message for every visitor, for eveiy servant, for every 
 tradesman, who enters the house, just as Trinity 
 Church, standing at the head of Wall Street, is a mes- 
 sage even for those who have never entered its doors. 
 God hasten the time when there will be a chapel in 
 every home, and may His abundant blessing be with 
 this inspired effort." 
 
 The Rev. Louis C. Washburn, Rector, Christ 
 Church, Philadelphia, Pa.: 
 
 "The multiplication of hotels and apartment 
 houses for poor as well as rich, in a generation that 
 is afraid to read the Bible in its schools, calls for con- 
 structive imagination and persuasiveness such as 
 glows from your pages, if home religion is to be re- 
 claimed. May tliis devout effort be abundantly re- 
 warded. ' ' 
 
 The Rev. William T. Manning, Pastor, Trinity 
 Church, New York (now Bishop of New York) : 
 
 " *A Chapel in Eveiy Home.' The matter did 
 not come before the 1913 Convention, but the sugges- 
 tion was one which could not fail to comimend itself 
 to earnest church people." 
 
 The Rev. John S. Bunting, Rector, Christ Church, 
 Macon, Georgia: 
 
 " 'A Chapel in Everj- Home.' I think I can best 
 express my estimate of it by telling you I am going to 
 
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 proceed to make the plan effective in my parish at once 
 on mv return from the General Convention. 1 think I 
 mav "best do this by issuing a circular letter to my 
 communicants about it. You have written not only an 
 appeal, but a challenge to faith that will wake up more 
 than one locality. The Hour, the Fact, the Place of 
 Praver, all go together. With God's blessing assured 
 in tiiis effort." 
 
 The Rev. James S. Stone, Rector of St. James' 
 P. E. Church, Chicago: 
 
 " 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I have read it mth 
 delight, and hope and pray that He who put it into your 
 heart to write it will make it a means whereby many 
 of our people may be brought back to a realization of 
 the duty and joy of family worship. It is a good sign 
 that such a book has been printed." 
 
 The Rev. Floyd W. Tomldns, Rector of the Church 
 of the Holy Trinity, Pliiladelphia : 
 
 " 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I am very much 
 pleased with it, and I believe it m411 do good. I wish 
 all success in this good work." 
 
 The Rev. Alexander Mann, Trinity Church, 
 Boston : 
 
 "To have in the house one room which is espe- 
 cially associated in the minds of all the family, parents 
 and children, with religion, is, I think, a very beautiful 
 and helpful thing." 
 
 The Rev. William R. Turner, Memorial Church 
 of St. Paul, Overbrook, Philadelphia: 
 
 "If there were more praying in the home, there 
 would be more people attending Church. If the ideal 
 of 'A Chapel in Every Home' were realized, the Sab- 
 bath questions would be settled. I, therefore, pray 
 our Heavenly Father to bless this work for Him and 
 for the betterment of humanitv." 
 
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 The Rev. Robert A. Edwards, St. John's P. E. 
 Church, Holmesburg, Pa.: 
 
 '* 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I read it all 
 through at one sitting and needless to say greatly en- 
 joyed it all. The idea is both unique and original. 
 Anything that tends to emphasize the value and 
 beauty of united prayer is worthy of hearty com- 
 mendation." 
 
 The Very Rev. Winfred H. Ziegler, Archdeacon 
 St. John's Cathedral, Albuquerque, N. M.: 
 
 "In Alaska, as one enters, at the tundra's edge, 
 the poor hut of the Aleut, the shrine \Wth its ikon and 
 lights is the first thing which catches the eve. It has 
 been cherished from generations and has* convinced 
 the babies and youths of the prevailing presence of 
 One who sacrificed himself for all men. In our Amer- 
 ican homes, what is there of teaching value to our chd- 
 dren and our guests? The family portraits? The 
 High School Diplomat The phonograph? 
 
 "Children cannot be taught religion. If they do 
 get it they get it by 'catching' it. They see that their 
 fathers and mothers have it, and then they grow up in 
 it. The family altar and altar cross, the liolv picture, 
 and the holy Book, all as part of the household furnish- 
 ing, will give more of God to the child and to the man 
 than years of fonnal religious instruction. Moreover if 
 husband and ^ife a^U earnestlv, at home as well as' in 
 church, pray together, they will in this life more 
 patiently and with more harmony Uve together. God 
 bless this inspired endeavor." 
 
 The Rev. Elwood Worcester, Emmanuel Church, 
 Boston, Mass.: 
 
 "The project appeals to me verv stronglv. I be- 
 lieve that the general discontinuance of familv wor- 
 ship IS one of the chief causes of the decav of practical 
 Christianity, and I feel sure that anv means which 
 would promote such worship would be" an inestimable 
 rehgious blessing to this country." 
 
88 A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 
 
 The Rev. Robert Johnston, Church of the Saviour, 
 Philadelphia, Pa.: 
 
 ''There are many people who would be greatly 
 helped by having a little comer of the house dedicated 
 as a place of quiet. I know many such and they find 
 the little chapel in the home helpful to them. The 
 particular place becomes by association the holy place. 
 There are others, however, who like Brother Lawrence 
 can realize the presence of God in the refectory of 
 the monastery as vividly as at the altar of High Mass. 
 This latter position is one rarely attained. I can see, 
 however, that the idea of a chapel in every home might 
 be the means of recovering for some the sense of the 
 presence of the Eternal which could then spread over 
 every detail and every place in life." 
 
 The Rev. W. H. Roberts, State Clerk and Treas- 
 urer, General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in 
 the U. S. A.: 
 
 '' 'A Chapel in Every Home.' The suggestion 
 made therein is admirable, and is in full harmony with 
 the spirit and life of the Presbyterian Church in the 
 U. S. A. As a Church we make much of the home 
 and of the family altar. To us the head of the house- 
 hold is the priest, and the gathering of the family for 
 worship each day of the week, the approach of the 
 household to God, acknowdedging His Fatherhood, 
 seeking his blessing and receiving grace sufficient for 
 every need, through Jesus Christ our Lord and 
 Saviour. That family w^orship is not a feature of the 
 life of a large number of Christian families in every 
 denomination is to us a source of deep regret. We 
 hail, therefore, with pleasure every movement, by 
 members of all Christian churches, that shall give to 
 the family altar its proper place, and emphasize yet 
 more clearly the declaration of the Apostle Peter, tiiat 
 Christians are a 'royal priesthood.' " 
 
 The Rev. Perry S. Allen, President, Presbyterian 
 Ministers Fund, Philadelphia, Pa.: 
 
 ' ' If the ideals in ' A Chapel in Every Home ' could 
 
A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 
 
 89 
 
 be realized in all Christian countries it would estab- 
 lish the kingdom of Christ on the earth in a very short 
 time, and the work of a thousand years would be done 
 in a day." 
 
 The Rev. John Grant Newman, Pastor, The 
 Chambers Wylie Memorial Presbyterian Church, Phil- 
 adelphia, Pa.: 
 
 " 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I have read it all. 
 The idea is so fine that it makes me think it was given 
 you in a moment of inspiration. I tnily wish that the 
 thought might become a universal fact. Let us hope 
 that it may." 
 
 The Rev. W. C. Robinson, Pastor, Northminster 
 Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, Pa.: 
 
 ''The idea of 'A Chapel in Every Home' is cer- 
 tainly a beautiful one. While I have always urged 
 prayer and home religion, I never thought of the room 
 set apart. It seems to me that such a room might, like 
 the alabaster box of ointment, send a perfume through 
 all the house and to every place where the family 
 should go. In my judgment a superlative need in 
 these times is to get the families back to religious 
 practices. In modern pressure and huriy we have 
 sacrificed things that are beyond calculation." 
 
 The Rev. Guido Bossard, Overbrook Presbyterian 
 Church, Overbrook, Philadelphia: 
 
 ''To make our religion the power it should be in 
 our lives and the lives of our people, your ideal of 'A 
 Chapel in Every Home' must be realized far and wide. 
 Surely you may count on the hearty co-operation of 
 every one interested in the highest welfare of his 
 fellow men." 
 
 The Rev. Samuel Y. Nicholls, Pastor, Second 
 Presbyterian Church, St. Louis : 
 
 "I heartily approve of the plan advocated in 'A 
 Chapel in Every Home. ' It could not fail to minister 
 
90 A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 
 
 to the support of family religion. ' The Church in the 
 House' is first in importance, and whatever promotes 
 its welfare should receive the earnest consideration 
 of all Christians. The Chapel in the House should be 
 the most sacred and inspiring room in it. A little 
 sanctuary, a place for prayer and meditation, a refuge 
 in times of sorrow and trouble, and an altar place for 
 the sacrifice of praise. I trust the plan suggested may 
 have its practical application in thousands of homes 
 and have its fruit in the revival of family religion." 
 
 The Rev. George Rutger Brauer, First Presby- 
 terian Church, Setauket, L. I.: 
 
 ''If households could be interested and persuaded 
 to adopt this idea, there would be a gracious revival 
 of pure and undefiled religion. Most homes have a 
 parlor reserved for company, a guest chamber for 
 visitors. Is there any place in our homes reserved 
 for God I What a beautiful idea that is, to have a 
 chapel in the home, some nook or corner which has 
 been beautified, made convenient and comfortable, re- 
 served for God and the future of spiritual life." 
 
 The Rev. W. Lyall Wilson, Dundee, Scotland : 
 
 '' 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I am glad that I 
 had the opportunity of discussing its subject matter 
 with you personally. You know already how heartily 
 I sympathize with your suggestion, and believing firmly 
 as I do that the family is the unit of a healthy and 
 happy state, I welcome and support everything that 
 aims at the consecration and elevation of the home." 
 
 The Rev. Walter Calley, Pastor, First Baptist 
 Church, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass.: 
 
 ''I believe the idea of 'A Chapel in Every Home' 
 is worthy of careful thought and if carried into prac- 
 tice would do much to sweeten the family life and 
 bring the individual nearer to God." 
 
 The Rev. L. Walton Terry, N. W. Baptist Conven- 
 tion, Tacoma, W^ashington : 
 
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 " 'A Chapel in Every Home.' It is something 
 entirely new to me and I have read the same with a 
 great deal of interest. Pra}dng that God may bless 
 this effort for the betterment of Homes." 
 
 The Rev. Ilulbert G. Beeman, Pastor, Walnut 
 Street Baptist Church, Waterloo, Iowa : 
 
 "The longer I am in the pastorate, the more I am 
 convinced of the great need of the present day, in the 
 revival of personal and family devotion. 'A Chapel 
 in Every Home' suggests a plan that ^^^ll greatly aid 
 in this direction. It should have the co-operation and 
 hearty support of every Clergyman in this matter." 
 
 The Rev. H. C. Rosamond, Pastor, First Baptist 
 Church, Eldorado, Ark. : 
 
 "The idea of 'A Chapel in Ever>^ Home' is one of 
 the very best and wdll be far-reaching in its influence. 
 I pray that the Holy Spirit will use it as a means of 
 establishing a Chapel in many thousands of homes. I 
 hope that it will get millions of our people to hold 
 frequent communion with God. May His richest bless- 
 ing rest upon this work." 
 
 The Rev. David Carol Williams, Pastor, First 
 Baptist Church, Globe, Ariz.: 
 
 "The idea of 'A Chapel in Eveiy Home' is a 
 capital one, and that which will help build up the 
 family life is certainly to be welcomed. The home out 
 of touch with God is an immeasurable hindrance to 
 all our work." 
 
 George L. White, General Missionaiy and Corre- 
 sponding Secretary, American Baptist Home Mission- 
 ary Society, Salt Lake City, Utah: 
 
 " 'The Chapel in Everj^ Home' presents a most 
 excellent idea. In proportion as its aim can be realized 
 we will have more devout lives and more happy 
 homes." 
 
92 A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 
 
 The Eev. George D. Adams, Pastor, Chestnut 
 Street Baptist Church, Philadelphia, Pa.: 
 
 *'The ideal of 'A Chapel in Every Home^ is truly 
 splendid and ought to be reaUzed in a Christian civil- 
 ization. Too long the world has had 'no room in the 
 Inn' for Christ. Family worship is the tap root of 
 rehgion and the propagation of such worship is sure 
 promotion of the Kingdom of Grod in the earth. ' ' 
 
 The Rev. A. C. Applegarth, Pastor, The Chestnut 
 Hill Baptist Church, Philadelphia, Pa.: 
 
 '' 'A Chapel in Every Home.' God speed this 
 good work. All who have had experience know that 
 out of the home are the issues of life. As the home 
 is, so will the business and social worlds be. And the 
 'church in the sanctuary' ^vill never be and do what 
 the Master intends it should be and do until once more 
 we have 'church in the house.' " 
 
 The Rev. W. C. Golden, Corresponding Secretary, 
 Tennessee Baptist Convention, Nashville, Tennessee : 
 
 " 'A Chapel in Every Home' strikes the key-note 
 of the highest ideal of home religion." 
 
 The Rev. Kerr Boyce Tupper, Pastor, First Bap- 
 tist Church, Philadelphia: 
 
 "A Chapel in every house is an ideal not more 
 unique and novel than it is desirable and practicable. 
 Years ago a great and good man said, 'Where God has 
 given roof there He expects an altar'; and the chapel 
 thought is one that should be emphasized in connec- 
 tion with the altar thought. Why not have in our 
 homes, then, a special place where men can hear God's 
 voice, meditate upon God's word and grow in God's 
 image; a place which more and more becomes to the 
 soul a gate of Heaven and a door to immortality, a 
 fixed and familiar place of communication with the 
 Infinite and the Eternal ?" 
 
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 The Rev. George W. Tniett, Pastor, First Baptist 
 Church, Dallas, Texas: 
 
 "The citadel both for Church and State is the 
 Home. As goes the Home, so shall go everything 
 throughout all the social order. The lofty resolution 
 of the noble Joshua should be the dominant resolution 
 in every Home: 'As for me and my house, we vnW 
 serve the Lord.' There can be no substitutes for the 
 duty and privilege of Family Worship. Whatever, 
 therefore, will magnify the best expression of Chris- 
 tianity in the Home should have the unceasing and 
 most faithful attention of the people everywhere, of 
 every age, class, condition and circumstance." 
 
 The Rev. H. H. Weber, General Secretary, the 
 Board of Church Extension of the General Synod of 
 the Evangelical Lutheraai Church in the United 
 States : 
 
 " *A Chapel in Every Home' strikes a tender 
 chord in my heart. I say splendid. Nothing will so 
 much conduce to make us better men and women, as 
 the secret chamber for prayer in every home in 
 America. I am pleased, too, with the whole argument 
 on the subject. It is telling and most convincing. I 
 trust and pray the day may soon come when 'A Chapel 
 in Every Home' will be a reality." 
 
 The Rev. E. P. Pfatteicher, Pastor, Evangelic<al 
 Lutheran Church of the Holy Communion, Philadel- 
 phia, Pa.: 
 
 * ' Tliirty years ago there was no dust on the family 
 Bible. Ten years ago it was covered with dust. To- 
 day there is no family Bible. We must replace it and 
 use it. If our religion is vital, of course there ought 
 to be * A Chapel in Every Home' and it ought not to 
 be in the attic. Your purpose is definite and highly 
 essential if righteousness is to continue in our land." 
 
 The Rev. J. Eugene Dietterich, Pastor of St. 
 Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Glenside, Mont- 
 gomery County, Pa.: 
 
94 A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 
 
 '*I believe every home should have a bathroom 
 and a chapel, the one for the body and the other for 
 the soul. I wish every home could have its chapel 
 where family worship could be conducted and where 
 every member of the family — and visitors too — could 
 go for private devotions — where all would be expected 
 to go before breakfast and before retiring. I believe 
 it would sweeten the temper of every one, cause each 
 to be more kindly disposed toward the other, prevent 
 the children being led away in bad courses of con- 
 duct, bind husband and wife closer together, bring all 
 into closer fellowship with God and in a closer follow- 
 ing of His guidance, develop Christian character and 
 Christian experiences, make life worth living and 
 death worth dying. Family Worship such as our 
 fathers had seems to be too largely abandoned. I 
 hope this idea of the 'chapel' in the home may not 
 only take its place, but enlarge its scope. I shall pray 
 for the extension of the work and I shall be glad if I 
 can do anything to help the good cause. '^ 
 
 The Rev. S. A. Ziegenfuss, Pastor, St. Michael's 
 Lutheran Church, Germanto^vn, Philadelpliia, Pa.: 
 
 '' 'A Chapel in Every Home' will surely serve 
 to awaken many hearts to a revival of the family altar 
 which in too many instances has been neglected. I 
 sincerely hope that the noble end may be reached, and 
 the family life may be permeated with the spirit of 
 true devotion. With the prayer that 'A Chapel in 
 Every Home' may have the divine blessing and the 
 effort be crowned with success." 
 
 The Rev. W. Bamf ord, Pastor, Cookman Methodist 
 Episcopal Church, Philadelphia : 
 
 '* 'A Chapel in the Home' takes me back into my 
 yesterdays when father, mother and seven children 
 gathered around the family altar. Father would read 
 the Bible and pray and upon closing the prayer mother 
 would rise from her knees, pass along the line of the 
 seven children, placing her hand upon the head of 
 each child, would send up a brief ejaculation beginning 
 with the eldest and closing with the babe in arms or by 
 
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 her side. I was the fifth child. Oh ! the touch of that 
 hand on my head, and the sound of tliat voice in my 
 ears, as she said: 'God bless my boy, William.' I feel 
 the touch and hear the voice today. 
 " * 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, 
 And ask what report they bore to heaven.' " 
 
 The Rev. P. W. Webb, Pastor, A. M. E. Church, 
 Marche, Ark. : 
 
 " 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I am just in from 
 attending- my annual conference. Finding this valuable 
 asset added to my scant library I am forced to feel that 
 I am highly complimented. Timely indeed does the 
 force of its language, so heartily endorsed by the lead 
 ers of a gi*eat church, clinch itself upon and within my 
 heart. The thought of the Home and its spiritual 
 atmosphere being of vital concern to me, becomes more 
 so, since gleaning these pages. So much do my people 
 (colored) need it that I could not refrain seizing the 
 privilege of equipping myself for the distribution of its 
 message. I fear that we are departing somewhat from 
 the force of its plea." 
 
 The Rev. Oscar Edward Maurer, Pastor, The First 
 Church of Christ, New Haven, Connecticut: 
 
 '' 'A Chapel in Every Home.' In a day when the 
 fires on the family altar seem to wane, it is a great 
 ]oy to one who believes implicitly in the immense prac- 
 tical value of the devotional life, to find that a busy pro- 
 fessional man is furthering the cause of family worship 
 — not theoretically, but by outlining a practicable plan. 
 I wish it every success." 
 
 The Rev. Henry S. Clubb, Pastor of the Philadel- 
 phia Bible Christian Church : 
 
 ** 'A Chapel in Every Home.' Had this idea and 
 suggestion been adopted in Europe three years ago the 
 war that is now devastating that quarter of the world, 
 in all probability would not have occurred." 
 
96 A CHAPEL IN EVEEY HOME 
 
 The Rev. George Hamilton Combs, Independence 
 Boulevard Christian Church, Kansas City : 
 
 '* 'A Chapel in Every Home.' Let me express my 
 appreciation of this work — none more beautiful, more 
 urgent. The home! — everything must begin there." 
 
 The Eev. William V. Berg, Pastor, Central Con- 
 gregational Church, Philadelphia, Pa.: 
 
 *' *A Chapel in Every Home.' I am in hearty 
 sympathy with the motive which prompted the prepara- 
 tion of this book, and on the manner of the presentation 
 of this timely subject." 
 
 The Eev. ^Y. E. Biederwolf, EvangeHst and Presi- 
 dent of the Family Altar League, Chicago, 111. : 
 
 "The thought of 'A Chapel in Every Home' ap- 
 peals to me mightily. It holds me in a giip of tremen- 
 dous interest. I stood recently in the home of a church 
 officer and saw one of the best rooms dedicated to the 
 bilHard game, another room dedicated to music, and 
 yet another room given to a conservatory for flowers, 
 and I confessed to my disappointment in finding no 
 room for the worship of God. Profoundly grateful for 
 every modern movement dedicated to the uplift of 
 humanity we are, nevertheless, face to face with the 
 solemn recognition that unless the Church rings out 
 with increased and clarion emphasis the slogan 'Back 
 to Family Worship' society is lost. Here is the divine 
 source of that prevention which is far better than any 
 cure, which, alas ! so often is never found. The thought 
 is big with meaning. It is beautiful; it is practical. 
 Christian Conventions ought to emphasize it. Eccle- 
 siastical Assemblies ought to encourage it. Christian 
 people ought to practice it. May God prosper this 
 great thought." 
 
 Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf, Temple, Philadelphia: 
 
 '' 'A Chapel in Every Home.' Your noble appeal 
 for a revival of one of the most sacred of fonner-day 
 home institutions, is worthy of the artistic form in 
 
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 whicli you have issued it. I have read the same from 
 cover to cover with genuine delight." 
 
 Rabbi Henry Berkowitz, Congregation Rodelph 
 Shalom, Philadelphia: 
 
 **1 am just now engaged in compiling a very in- 
 teresting collection of home prayers to be used by the 
 Central Conference of American Rabbis. I cite these 
 facts, as I presume they will interest you, as indicative 
 of the fulfillment of those pious sentiments which have 
 prompted you to the earnest advocacy of the promotion 
 of the reverent spirit in the home.'^ 
 
 BIBLE, SUNDAY SCHOOL, CHRISTIAN AND 
 OTHER ASSOCIATIONS. 
 
 E. K. Mohr, Superintendent, Purity Department, 
 The International Sunday School Association: 
 
 " 'A Chapel in Every Home.' You cannot claim 
 too much for this splendid idea, and the hearty re- 
 sponse from so many leaders is witness to the fact that 
 God has spoken through you to a real need in heart 
 and home. Imdted to many Christian homes in differ- 
 ent parts of the countrj^, the 'Chapel' shall not be for- 
 gotten and I trust I may learn to speak about it that 
 many bless God for this practical suggestion." 
 
 W. G. Landes, General Secretaiy, Pennsylvania 
 State Sabbath School Association, Philadelphia, Pa.: 
 
 ' ' ' A Chapel in Every Home. ' I have gone through 
 it with interest and I feel that God has given you an 
 idea that should at once impress every individual who 
 desires to see the kmgdom of God extended through 
 this great land of ours. In these days of conunercial- 
 ism, when values are considered by the temporaiy 
 standard of dollars and cents, it is well to have our 
 attention called to the things that are eternal and 
 divuie. The strength of this nation is in its home hfe, 
 and if in the home a place can be secured where daily 
 intercourse may be had with our Heaveidy Father, our 
 
98 A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 
 
 homes cannot help but be purer, and from which our 
 children will go in the strength of right living and 
 righteousness. ' ' 
 
 George H. Stuart, Jr., President, The Home Mis- 
 sionary Society of the City of Philadelphia, Vice-Pres- 
 ident, The Philadelphia Bible Society: 
 
 ' ' The message of ' A Chapel in Every Home ' brings 
 a new light to the world. It is a challenge to the faith 
 of us all. A Christian household is the unit upon whose 
 foundation is built the structure of an enduring na- 
 tional life, and the influence of this message shall be 
 recorded upon the pages of history. The title, so well 
 chosen by the author, clearly indicates the intimate 
 connection between worship, and family reverence for 
 those objects winch transcend the grosser elements of 
 our physical being. 
 
 ''If ever there was a time when the chapel in the 
 home would throw its beacon light upon a world, sin- 
 tossed and strugghng with passions and doubts, surely 
 it is now. It would shine out over the raging sea of 
 wavering faith and pilot us into the haven of prayer, 
 to find sweet comfort and divine guidance in the sanc- 
 tuary of the Most High. Within its portals we could 
 lay our w^eakness, our sorrow and our perplexity be- 
 fore our Grod, and in secret communion, in our o\vn 
 home, day or night. The banner of our sanctuary' 
 would ever proclaim to our fellow-man our allegiance 
 to the King of Kings, and our brotherhood with human- 
 ity. The thought is a noble one in its conception and 
 wholly practicable of execution. 
 
 "May this chapel, therefore, be set up in every 
 home throughout our land, and in every land, that by 
 its sacred influence, admission, and teachings, the youth 
 and manhood of the world may find, enjoy and trans- 
 mit to succeeding generations the blessings alike of 
 true religion and civil and political liberty." 
 
 Emilie F. Kearney, Teacher Training Superin- 
 tendent, Philadelphia County Sunday School Associa- 
 tion: 
 
 " *A Chapel in Every Home.' Those of us who are 
 daily in intimate contact vnth the religious life of this 
 
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 city can appreciate what a Chapel in Eveiy Home would 
 mean to the spiritual life of our people — it would go a 
 long way toward solving our great religious problems. 
 You can be assured that I am with you in your work 
 and will be glad to speak about its glorious possibilities 
 whenever I have the opportunity. *' 
 
 Anne Townsend Scribner, President, Federation 
 Women's Bible Classes, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 
 
 *' 'A Chapel in Every Home.' It is a beautiful 
 thought, and is directly in line with our conviction in 
 the Federation. We believe as you do, that 'The home 
 and the family is the cornerstone on which rests na- 
 tional life and progress'; only we, of course, empha- 
 size the position that woman holds as the kej'^ to a great 
 part of the situation w^ith a devoted, consecrated wom- 
 anhood, studjdng the Bible. An idea such as is con- 
 veyed in your book of a consecrated place in the home 
 would be of inestimable benefit." 
 
 Ellen E. Fay, Missionary, Faith Mission, Kanbalu, 
 Burma, India: 
 
 *' *A Chapel in Every Home.' For many years I 
 have tried to have a quiet place for communion with 
 God. The heathen in their homes have a place in one 
 comer devoted to their gods, where many times a day 
 they bow" for worship. I hope and pray that your book 
 may lead Christians to consecrate some place in their 
 homes to God." 
 
 David H. Wright, Secretary, American Bed Cross, 
 Philadelphia Chapter, Independence Hall, Philadel- 
 phia, Pa. : 
 
 * ' It is a superb thought, and one that will, \^'ithout 
 doubt, weave itself into the pages of histor>\" 
 
 D. L. Anderson, for twenty-five years Assistant 
 Superintendent of Bethany Sunday School, Philadel 
 phia (John Wanamaker's) : 
 
100 A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 
 
 '*I have read with much interest your 'Home 
 Chapel' idea, and must say that I feel only God through 
 His spirit could have inspired it. My sainted father and 
 mother had a special place of prayer in our old Home- 
 stead. I have tried in a weak way to follow their exam- 
 ple. The Home must be the salvation of the race or at 
 least the foundation must be laid there. May God bless 
 you and establish your plans over our country.'' 
 
 William Hamilton, Chairman, Home and Visitation 
 Committee, The International Sunday School Associa- 
 tion, Toronto, Canada : 
 
 '' 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I commend your 
 wisdom in reaching with this the chief officers of the 
 various religious denominations, and I am glad to see 
 with what unanimity they endorse a movement for the 
 restitution of a Family Altar." 
 
 G. S. Eddy, Associate General Secretary, Foreign 
 Work, The International Committee of Young Men's 
 Christian Association, New York: 
 
 " 'A Chapel in Every Home.' It is a remarkable 
 little volume. If this could be introduced into every 
 home, what good it would accomplish. May God bless 
 you in this work." 
 
 Robert H. Gardner, Secretarj^, World Conference 
 on Faith and Order: 
 
 '' 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I am sure it ^vill be 
 of great value in restoring the recognition of the need 
 of family prayers." 
 
 Hubert Carleton, General Secretaiy and Editor of 
 St. Andrew's Cross: 
 
 *' 'A Chapel in Every Home.' You are certainly to 
 be congratulated on the interest you have aroused over 
 such a very wide and influential field. A mention of it 
 in St. Andrew's Cross will, I am sure, call to the at- 
 tention of many eager to do ever^^thing they can to de- 
 
A CUAPEL IN EVERY HOME 101 
 
 velop the Christian life in themselves and in others, 
 the need and blessing of following what you advocate.'* 
 
 W. S. Battin, Secretary and Registrar, Synod, Dio- 
 cese of Toronto: 
 
 "The first thought that occurred to me, after the 
 perusal of 'A Chapel in Eveiy Home' was one of 
 thankfulness to the Divine Ruler that, in this age of 
 strenuousness and worldliness, there should be one 
 with a sufficient realization of the responsibility rest- 
 ing upon him to devote the necessaiy time and thought 
 to a matter which certainly should be considered of 
 first and paramount importance. In the career of ever>" 
 family, as in that of ever>^ individual, the fear of God 
 should be the starting point, but in too many cases I 
 fear it is not. If every young couple upon getting mar- 
 ried could be persuaded, right at the start, to estab- 
 lish a chapel or altar in their home and have family 
 prayer, it would prove a good example to the children, 
 and prevent many troubles in after life. Much might 
 be done by the clergy in this connection. In the build- 
 ing up of this vast country, yours and ours, we want 
 good, honest, reliable. Christian men and women, and 
 in the inculcation of the principles contained in your 
 book, you are doing your best towards the attainment 
 of this desirable result. Tnisting that the effort may 
 be abundantly blessed." 
 
 PRESIDENTS OF UNIVERSITIES, COLLEGES 
 AND SEMINARIES. 
 
 Henry B. Bro^\^l, A. M., President, Valparaiso 
 University, Valparaiso, Indiana. 
 
 '' 'A Chapel in Ever>^ Home.' I certainly con- 
 gratulate you on the courage you have had to present 
 this matter in such a delightful way. If the plan could 
 be carried out (and why could it not?) there would be 
 no need for jails and penitentiaries. I appreciate more 
 than I can tell your kindness in sending me a copy. If 
 there is any way in which I can co-operate \\'ith you I 
 shall be only too happy to do so." 
 
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 A CHAPEL IN EVEEY HOME 
 
 A. B. Storms, LL. D., D. D., President, Iowa State 
 College : 
 
 '' 'A Chapel in Every Home.' The idea of having 
 a chapel in every home is of great interest. The sug- 
 gestion appeals to me strongly. I do not see why it is 
 not practicable. In an age of feverish commercialism 
 and intellectual excitement men need more than ever a 
 place of retreat." 
 
 W. H. P. Faunce, D. D., President, Brown Univer 
 sity. Providence : 
 
 '' 'A Chapel in Every Home.' Certainly the home 
 is the unit of civilization, and whatever strengthens 
 and deepens home life is an aid to the life of the entire 
 nation. I believe in the quiet hour as of great value 
 to every human being, and shall be glad if, through 
 your efforts, that hour can find permanent place in 
 many Uves." 
 
 James B. Angell, LL. I>., President, University of 
 Michigan : 
 
 "Thank you for 'A Chapel in Every Home' con- 
 taining your excellent suggestion and its endorsement 
 by eminent men, some of them my old friends. It gives 
 me great pleasure to say how heartily I coincide with 
 you and with them, and especially with my old college- 
 mate, George Dana Boardman. If this publication 
 serves to restore the old custom of family prayers, you 
 will no doubt regard yourself as amply repaid. ' ' 
 
 Edgar Fahs Smith, Sc. D., LL. D., Provost, Uni- 
 versity of Pennsylvania : 
 
 ** *A Chapel in Every Home.' I want you to know 
 that I feel there is a great deal in your plan — more than 
 any one of us realizes." 
 
 F. W. Hamilton, D. D., LL. D., President, Tufts 
 College, Mass. : 
 
 ''You propose a noble and helpful ideal." 
 
A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 103 
 
 David Starr Jordan, LL. D., President, Leland 
 Stanford, Jr., University, California : 
 
 *' 'A Chapel in Every Home.' The suggestion is 
 certainly one of great interest to religious people." 
 
 Henry S. Drinker, LL. D., President, Lehigh Uni- 
 versity : 
 
 '' 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I have read it with 
 much interest and have at once placed it in our college 
 library for the inspection of our faculty and students." 
 
 Sidney E. Mezes, Ph. D., President, University of 
 Texas : 
 
 ''Your suggestion and the letters regarding it are 
 sure to prove helpful and inspiring to those who are 
 fortunate enough to receive them." 
 
 Alston Ellis, Ph. D., LL. D., President, Ohio Uni- 
 versity : 
 
 ''I thank you for giving me the opportunity to read 
 and study the contents of the booklet which is freighted 
 with what I regard as a most pertinent statement rela- 
 tive to a matter of supreme importance." 
 
 A. W. Harris, LL. D., President, Northwestern 
 University, Evaustown and Chicago, 111. : 
 
 '*I am much interested in the purpose of your 
 booklet, 'A Chapel in Ever>^ Home.' I trust it will ac 
 complish the results which your energ}' desei^es." 
 
 Josiah H. Penniman, LL. D., Provost, University 
 of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia : 
 
 ''The thought that there should be set apart a 
 portion of each day for religious meditation and wor- 
 ship is, of course, a generally accepted one, but your 
 thought that there should not only be a time, but also 
 a special place in every home, however great, or how- 
 
104 A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 
 
 ever humble, which should be set apart as a place of 
 worship, is of importance, for it emphasizes the neces- 
 sity in the life, and in the home. Moreover, the fact 
 that there is such a place in the house is likely to keep 
 ever in the minds of its occupants, the necessity of hav- 
 ing also a time for worship. 
 
 ' ' Of course, God may be worshipped acceptably in 
 any place, but, in a special place, the worship is less 
 apt to be interfered with by the encroachments of 
 worldly thoughts and worldly things. If your idea could 
 be realized in every home where men profess and be- 
 lieve in and worship God, the effect on those who do 
 not make such professions would be incalculably great 
 for good. 
 
 ''May your devotion to a great cause, the greatest 
 of all causes, be rewarded by the setting apart of in- 
 numerable places of worship sacred to God whom we 
 profess to serve." 
 
 Edwin E. Sparks, LL. D., President, Pennsylvania 
 State College: 
 
 ' ' The matter you present so lucidly and forcefully 
 should appeal to every American citizen. I will place 
 the book in the college library where I hope it will be 
 of continued service to present and future students." 
 
 Frank Strong, Chancellor of the University of 
 Kansas : 
 
 ''With best wishes for 'A Chapel in Every 
 Home.' " 
 
 Henry A. Blittz, D. D., President, Drew Theo- 
 logical Seminary, Madison, N. J. : 
 
 "The setting apart of a particular room in the 
 house, however small, as you suggest, which shall be 
 recognized as the home of the spirit, where the family 
 and friends may be gathered for communion with God, 
 cannot be otherwise than promotive of spiritual life 
 and constitute a telling uplift towards better living; 
 it will also serve as a bond to unite parents and chil- 
 dren together better perhaps than any other method." 
 
A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 105 
 
 The Eev. J. H. Stahr, President, Franklin and 
 Marshall College : 
 
 " *A Chapel in Every Home.' I have read it with 
 a great deal of interest and I heartily agree with you 
 in the statement that 'any effectual means of strength- 
 ening and uplifting home life, of deepening the relig- 
 ious and moral con\'ictions and purity which are the 
 very essence of home life, must have vital effect upon 
 the national life of the human family as a whole.' If 
 every family could be induced to have a sacred place, a 
 sacred time would naturally follow, and there would 
 be restored to family life the element of stated wor- 
 ship now so sadly lacking." 
 
 Gustav Andrees, President of Augustana College 
 and Theological Seminaiy, Rock Island, Illinois : 
 
 '* 'A Chapel in Every Home' received. I thank 
 you very much for the same and certainly believe with 
 you that there should be a family center for spiritual 
 thought and communication and uplift. In my father's 
 home, I may well say that his library was this center. 
 In Fjellstedt College, in Upsala, Sweden, there was a 
 room set apart for the use of the students and teach- 
 ers, solely for prayer and meditation." 
 
 George B. Stewart, President of the Auburn Theo- 
 logical Seminary, Auburn, New York: 
 
 *' 'A Chapel in Eveiy Home.' I wish to express 
 my unqualified approval of the idea. Many je&rs ago 
 Mrs. Stewart and I entertained the same thought and 
 set apart a room in our house for such uses. It is true, 
 we did not carry out the idea as fully as you have 
 carried it out, but we regarded it as our 'prayer room.' 
 I think you have worked out the idea in a beautiful 
 and in a practical way, and I join with you in the hope 
 that many may be led by what you have said to con- 
 secrate their homes in this most helpful way." 
 
 E. P. Fairchild, President, Lincoln Memorial Uni- 
 versity, Cumberland Gap, Temiessee: 
 
106 A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 
 
 ** 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I was much im- 
 pressed when I first saw the title, with the value of the 
 thought. I think there can be no question but that this 
 important message was given you to deliver at this 
 time. We have always had the family altar at our 
 home since our marriage in 1882 and I would rather be 
 deprived of most any other daily blessing than this. 
 There should also be the Chapel in Every home. This 
 seems natural and almost a necessity, and would be 
 quite sure to lead to family prayers." 
 
 Woodrow Wilson, President of Princeton Univer- 
 sity: 
 
 " 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I am sure that every 
 one will appreciate the spirit in which you have con 
 ceived it." 
 
 Fletcher Homan, LL. D., President, Willamette 
 University, Salem, Oregon: 
 
 '* 'A Chapel in Every Home.' It is designed to 
 do great good and to accomplish the most permanent 
 blessings in every home. A reverential appreciation of 
 the presence of God is the surest ground of safety and 
 happiness for the home, the community or nation. May 
 the richest blessings of the Father of us all attend this 
 great service to mankind." 
 
 D. R. Frazer, President of the German Theological 
 School of Newark, N. J. : 
 
 ' * The specific work of our school is the training of 
 ministers to carry the gospel to the hosts of foreign- 
 speaking peoples now landing on our shores, in order 
 that every man may hear the glad tidings in his own 
 tongue wherein he was bom. Of course, this immense 
 immigration brings its own perils and problems. 
 These we are striving to solve. But we feel that the 
 real danger of our civilization lies in the degradation of 
 the American home in which is being reared a 
 generation concerning whom it can be truthfully said, 
 God is not in all their thoughts. This new eifort re- 
 
A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 
 
 107 
 
 bukes this teiidciicv to live S\^tliout God in the world' 
 and we hope it may help in the speedy upreanng of 
 *A Chapel in Every Home.' " 
 
 Rev. Samuel Hart Dean, Berkeley Divinity School, 
 Middletowni, Conn. : 
 
 '* ' A Cliapel in Every Home.' Your plan and pur- 
 pose certainly commend themselves, and I sincerely 
 hope that what you have written will bring many to 
 see the value of rightly ordered family prayer suitably 
 provided for." 
 
 The Right Rev. Lewis W. Burton, President, Mar- 
 garet College, Versailles, Ky. : 
 
 *'I msh and earnestly pray that your lofty ideals 
 and purpose may have the most desirable result of 
 leading our people to a return to the family altar and 
 to such devotions as will sanctify the home, and pre- 
 vent that which seems to be the most dangerous of the 
 features of our modern civilization— the loss to the 
 modem generation of pure, inspiring home-life, which 
 was such a mighty factor in the life of preceding gen- 
 erations, the problems of modem house-keeping break- 
 ing up everywhere the households of our people." 
 
 OTHER EDUCATORS. 
 
 Charles F. Kent, Professor of Biblical Literature, 
 Yale University, New Haven, Conn. : 
 
 '^ 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I am eager to wel- 
 come any plan which vdW develop religion here in Amer- 
 ica. This development of the family so that it will 
 function, is certainly the great task which lies before 
 us in the present generation. In many homes, espe- 
 cially where the more ritualistic type of faith prevails, 
 I am sure that your plan will prove of great value. It 
 has seemed to me that in the average home the prob- 
 lem of restoring family worship must be worked out by 
 adapting it very closely and simply to the habits and 
 limitations of each individual family group, as they at 
 present exist." 
 
108 
 
 A CHAPEL. IN EVERY HOME 
 
 Warren Powers Laird, Dean, Department of 
 Architecture, University of Pennsylvania, Philadel- 
 phia, Pa.: 
 
 ''The Family Altar of earlier generations was 
 but a name as far as concerned the visible instruments 
 of divine worship, and yet how real the influence upon 
 home life of the thing for which that name stood, the 
 daily gathering of the household for a common ap- 
 proach to the presence of a personal God! The 
 practice seems to be passing wdth changing conditions 
 of life, yet the necessity for it is no less. Indeed, the 
 increasing diversity and pressure of the distractions 
 of life, render more desirable some tangible reminder 
 of the necessity of prayer in daily life, and your sug- 
 gestion of 'A Chapel in Every Home' points the way 
 to a practical satisfaction of that need. 
 
 "To the architect whose created w^orks are not only 
 the seat but the symbol of the life to be lived within 
 them, the opportunity to incorporate a chapel in the 
 home must bring peculiar satisfaction, for it would 
 enable him to complete the practical provisions for the 
 various functions of home life, now too universally 
 confined to the physical and social sides. The 'ora- 
 tory' or private chapel of mediaeval times has ever 
 enriched and dignified the house in which it appeared 
 because it was a frank declaration, in the most beauti- 
 ful form possible to craftsmanship, of the supreme 
 place allotted to religion in the life of the establish- 
 ment. 
 
 "It is to be hoped that the place of prayer will 
 increasingly be made a part of the equipment of our 
 homes and I am sure that your earnest efforts will 
 give distinct impulse to this end." 
 
 William Draper Lewis, Dean, Department of 
 Law, University of Pennsylvania: 
 
 "Each line of what you say bears evidence of the 
 fact that you have given to the idea your best thought 
 for a long time. The idea is an inspiring one and 
 you have succeeded in giving me some of your en- 
 thusiasm for it." 
 
A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 109 
 
 Richard M. Jones, LL. D., Head Master, William 
 Penn Charter School, Philadelphia: 
 
 "I have been greatly interested in the subject 
 which you present so lucidly and so convincingly. You 
 certainly are on the right track, and if you accomplish 
 nothing more than to draw the attention of our people 
 to the importance of some sort of family worship, 
 your efforts A\ill merit and will receive the grateful 
 appreciation of your fellow men." 
 
 George E. Nitzsche, Recorder of the University of 
 Pemisylvania : 
 
 " *A Chapel in Every Home' is a very great 
 contribution to the general betterment of humanity. 
 I am sure it already has, and will continue to have, 
 wide influence in making happier many homes." 
 
 ACACIA FRATERNITY. 
 
 Acacia Fraternity, Cornell University, Allen 
 Jayne, Secretary: 
 
 "Our chapter is in receipt of *A Chapel in Evoiy 
 Home.' Personally I believe that the chief ill of the 
 country today is the lack of religious influence on the 
 children in their ovrii homes. Religious impressions 
 when made on children at the proper age go deep into 
 the character and have great influence in the years 
 to come, although sometimes this influence is not 
 recognized by any except the person himself." 
 
 Acacia Fraternity, University of Chicago, Donald 
 J. Pope, Secretary: 
 
 "Our chapter is in receipt of *A Chapel in Every 
 Home.' Our complex society is continually more in 
 need of higher ideals of duty to God and fellow man 
 and each should note \\ith pleasure the efforts of all 
 who attempt to raise these ideals." 
 
110 A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 
 
 Acacia Fraternity, Columbia University, New 
 York, E. F. Humphrey, Secretary: 
 
 "I wish on behalf of Tsadhe Chapter of Acacia 
 Fraternity to extend to you our heartfelt thanks for 
 the copy of 'A Chapel in Every Home/ It brings 
 back to our minds the impressive talk on that subject 
 given to us on that memorable March 20th night. We 
 shall most carefully treasure it among our archives/' 
 
 Acacia Fraternity, Columbia University, New 
 York, H. H. Holmes, President: 
 
 '* ' A Chapel in Everj^ Home. ' Many thanks on be- 
 half of our chapter, but a gift so extraordinary in its 
 sweetness of spirit merits all that can be said person- 
 ally and officially. 
 
 "I can anticipate the joy of our cliapter by my 
 own delight. The night of our first banquet you en- 
 graved upon the tablets of our hearts, 'A Chapel in 
 Eveiy Home.' Pleasant are those memories, and 
 now that we have the same beautiful sentiments in 
 booklet form you may imagine our appreciation. 
 Coming at this day of unrest and skepticism, 'A 
 Chapel in Every Home' serves well to strike a counter 
 stroke to such movements, and I am sure many of our 
 youthful courses will be steered to better services by 
 your kind words.'* 
 
 Acacia Fraternity, Harvard University, Floyd L. 
 Duxbury, Secretary: 
 
 "You have made a valuable addition to our Hbrary 
 and given us a good thought. We thank you most 
 heartily, especially for the idea." 
 
 Acacia Fraternity, University of Kansas, Walter 
 G. Theile, Secretary: 
 
 '' 'A Chapel in Every Home.' You have given us 
 a great ideal to think about and the thoughts and 
 sentiments expressed in it -will receive much considera- 
 tion from us." 
 
A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 111 
 
 Acacia Fraternity, University of Michigan, L. S. 
 Mercer, Secretary: 
 
 " 'A Chapel in Every Home.' We appreciate it 
 and feel that it is something that deserves more than 
 ordinarv attention." 
 
 OTHER PROMINENT LAYMEN. 
 
 Hon. Hampton L. Carson, Philadelphia, President, 
 American Bar Association : 
 
 **I recall that you spoke to me of this beautiful 
 thought nearly ten years ago, and the words you used 
 made me realize, as I had never done before, affirma- 
 tively and positively, the value as a tower of strength 
 and consolation in the family life of men and women 
 of the presence of a domestic shrine. I have never 
 forgotten those words, and I am now happy in being 
 the recipient of the book in whicli the thought is 
 permanently embalmed.'* 
 
 George Wharton Pepper, United States Senator 
 from Pennsylvania: 
 
 " 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I entirely approve 
 of your main idea. It seems to me that familv prayers 
 ought to be an important part of family hfe. I am 
 sure that it is a great help to reverence and devotion 
 to have a place set apart for family devotions. In my 
 household wo know from practical experience that 
 this is true." 
 
 Hon. George B. Orlady, President Judge, The 
 Superior Court of Pennsylvania: 
 
 '' 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I sincerelv hope 
 that the seed thus planted will bear fruit an hundred 
 fold." 
 
 Charles F. Gallagher, Counsellor at Law, Boston, 
 Mass. : 
 
 " 'A Chapel in Every Home.' It is a sentiment 
 
112 A CHAPEL. IN EVERY HOME 
 
 that appeals to the reUgious side of every life. You 
 have certainly sowed a wonderful quantity of good 
 seed and the harvest ought to be ripe indeed." 
 
 John A. Dix, Ex-Governor of the State of New 
 York : 
 
 '* 'A Chapel in Every Home' builds a sure founda- 
 tion for future generations of character of the Chris- 
 tian type. The chapel at the hearthstone where parents 
 and children render thanks for blessings vouchsafed, 
 should have the universal approval.^' 
 
 Wilham Homan, Provincial Grand Treasurer for 
 the United States, Royal Order of Scotland, New York 
 City: 
 
 "1 am full of enthusiasm over your work and 
 know your initiative is the first impetus of a great 
 movement." 
 
 W. D. Vincent, Vice-president, Old National Bank, 
 Spokane, Washington: 
 
 ** 'A Chapel in Every Home.' The idea is cer- 
 tainly a splendid one, and at this time can be made 
 more impressive than ever after the war. Reading 
 what you say makes one feel like being an evangelist 
 in the cause. With the hope that there will be a 
 chapel in Every home. ' ' 
 
 Mrs. Ida M. Ryan, Suffern, N. Y. : 
 
 ''I think a chapel should be in every home." 
 
 Brig. Gen., F. S. Strong, U. S. Army: 
 
 '' 'A Chapel in Every Home.' The purpose which 
 prompted you to undertake the work is in the highest 
 degree commendable and the results cannot be but sat- 
 isfactory. It will be a pleasure for me to show it to 
 as many of my friends as possible in the hope that it 
 may strike a responsive chord in their hearts." 
 
A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 113 
 
 R. E. Field, Banker, Cincinnati, Ohio: 
 
 "I can only subscribe to the many high testimoni- 
 aJs contained in 'A Chapel in Every Home' that it is, 
 indeed, a wonderful idea and one which I am sure will 
 bear fiiiit in bringing to millions of families in this 
 universe a higher sense of duty to their Maker, with 
 the certainty that civilization will be much more sub- 
 stantially advanced." 
 
 Mary Dunn Kuser, Bordentown, N. J.: 
 
 '* 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I congratulate you 
 upon this work which I feel is an inspired one. The 
 times are ripe for a great and universal religious up- 
 rising. There are evidences of the reaction against 
 materialism on every hand and your book is one of the 
 finger posts. The thought suggested is most beautiful 
 and elevating and the concrete results will be beyond 
 your estimating.^' 
 
 Alba B. Johnson, President, The Baldwin Locomo- 
 tive Works, Philadelphia: 
 
 ** *A Chapel in Every Home.' One of the saddest 
 things of this period in which we live is the decadence 
 of family worship and the lack of religious teaching in 
 the home. The loss of religious \atality therefrom to 
 the younger generation is a deplorable fact which must 
 have far-reaching effects, and against which we should 
 strive with every effort in our power." 
 
 Howard B. French, President, Philadelphia Cham- 
 ber of Commerce: 
 
 "I tiTist that your vision may grow as years pass 
 and that your life may be spared to realize that tlie 
 foundation which you commenced constructing in 1898 
 will show a superstructure appropriate to the founda- 
 tion which you built." 
 
 Francis B. Reeves, Philadelphia: 
 
 '' 'A Chapel in Every Home.' Thank God I know 
 
114 A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 
 
 the value of the chapel in the home, by dearest experi- 
 ence. It is to be lamented that our gospel preachers 
 as a rule are not alive to the duties of father and 
 mother in the home." 
 
 John S. Bioien, Merchants Union Trust Company, 
 Philadelphia, Pa. : 
 
 " 'A Chapel in Every Home.' It would be of vast 
 advantage to our country were a greater recognition 
 made in American family life of Almighty guidance. 
 The subject is approached from innumerable points of 
 view, but the need exists and acknowledgment should 
 be more general. ' ' 
 
 John A. Wiedersheim, Philadelphia, Pa.: 
 
 " 'A Chapel in Every Home.' Its object is great 
 and I hope that it will do much, all in good time. In 
 these days of business, excitement, pleasure and for- 
 getfulness, causing indifference to and neglect of our 
 Maker, your work mil help to bring back the people 
 to their allegiance and duty to Him." 
 
 John McMurdie Warner, Philadelphia, Pennsyl- 
 vania : 
 
 *' 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I thank you sin- 
 cerely for the privilege of having this tribute of your 
 respect and love to all powerful God to keep as a per- 
 manent memento of a friendship which has extended 
 over eighteen years ; and during the past ten years or 
 more, when in some quiet spot wherever I happened to 
 be, I have daily asked our Heavenly Father to bless 
 and guide you and your family." 
 
 George Bradford Carr, Member of the Philadel- 
 phia Bar: 
 
 '' 'A Chapel in Every Home.' In reading it I find 
 myself in hearty accord with every word and line of 
 its contents. It is an appeal to the highest and best in 
 all of us. I am sure that you are right, and that if we 
 
A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME il5 
 
 lived closer to God in prosperity, our burden of sorrow 
 would be lighter to bring to Him in time of disappoint- 
 ment and disaster." 
 
 Rufus J. Foster, M. E., Scranton, Pemisylvania : 
 
 "Monday night at the annual dinner of the Men's 
 Guild of the St. Luke's Parish, the speakers were the 
 Rector, Rev. Robert P. Kreitler, Bishop Biller, South 
 Dakota, Judge Fuller, of Wilkes-Barre, and Bishop 
 Israel, of Erie. It will interest you to know that the 
 text of Bishop Israel's address was your book, *A 
 Chapel in Every Home.' He related how he had found 
 a copy of the book on his desk at the General Conven- 
 tion and afterwards wrote you and received a copy of 
 the more elaborately bound volume. His speech was a 
 magnificent one, and veiy thrilling." 
 
 William Waterall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 
 
 '* 'The Chapel in the Home' — as you picture it— » 
 is a reverent and beautiful conception — and will surely 
 be helpful in promoting the establishing of the family 
 altar in the home. When I saw your little sanctuary 
 in the West Philadelphia home, it recalled far-off days, 
 and the sacred devotions that hallow the memory of 
 my boyhood life in England, and my matured family 
 life in America. Trusting that God's blessing will go 
 with this message." 
 
 In the foregoing reception of the message of '*A 
 Chapel in Everj^ Home ' ' we find men and women, hail- 
 ing with praise and gladness the da"s\Ti of pre-eminent 
 reverence, veneration and respect for Almighty God 
 in all human habitations. There is a gentleness, a com- 
 pleteness about their closing around the message with 
 mingling consecration — a perfect acceptance, which 
 makes it imperishable. This message will live from 
 generation to generation, even unto the end, growing 
 by adoption into a fullness and beauty; crowning hu- 
 
116 A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 
 
 man existence with new joys through a daily closer 
 communion with our Father in Heaven, and every 
 home shall be a house of prayer. 
 
 "Son of man, behold, they of the house of 
 Israel say, The vision that he seeth is for many 
 days to come, and he prophesieth of the times that 
 are far off. Therefore say unto them. Thus saith 
 the Lord God; There shall none of my words be 
 prolonged any more, but the word that I have 
 spoken shall be done, saith the Lord.^' — Ezekiel 
 12: 27-28. 
 
 This appeal to the world for a chapel in every 
 home closes with the prayer that all who read it may 
 see the vision of the future in its adoption, and help 
 to make the vision a reality. 
 
 ''And the peace of God, which passeth all un- 
 derstanding, shall keep your hearts and minds 
 through Christ Jesus." — Philemon iv : 7. 
 
INDEX 
 
 CARDINALS. 
 
 Page 
 
 Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston 53 
 
 Cardinal Falconio, Apostolic Delegate to the United States ... 53 
 Cadinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore 54 
 
 PRIMATES. 
 
 Primate of all Ireland, The Most Rev. William Alexander . . . 
 
 Primus of Scotland, The Most Rev. W. J. F. Robberds 
 
 Primate of all Ireland, The Most Rev. John B. Crozier . . . . 
 Primate of all Canada, The Most Rev. Samuel P. Matheson . 
 Primate of India and Ceylon, The Most Rev. R. S. Copleston 
 Primate of the West Indies, The Most Rev. Enos Xuttall .. 
 
 METROPOLITANS. 
 
 Metropolitan of Queensland, .Australia, The Most Rev. St. C. 
 
 G. A. Donaldson 56 
 
 Metropolitan of South .Africa, The Most Rev. William O. Bur- 
 rows 56 
 
 ARCHBISHOPS. 
 
 Archbishop of St. Paul, Minn., The Most Rev. John Ireland .. 56 
 Archbishop of Chicago, 111., The Most Rev. James Edward 
 
 Quigley 56 
 
 Archbishop of Dubuque, Iowa, Tlie Most Rev. John J. Keane.. 57 
 
 BISHOPS OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL 
 CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES. 
 
 House of Bishops, General Convention. St. Louis, 1916. .. .71, 72, 73 
 Bishop of Alabama, The Right Rev. Charles M. Beckwith .... 03 
 Bishop Coadjutor of Albany, The Right Rev. Richard Henry 
 
 Nelson 65 
 
 (117) 
 
118 INDEX 
 
 PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL BISHOPS— Continued. 
 
 Pago 
 
 Bishop of Arizona, The Right Rev. J. M. Kendrick 64 
 
 " Arkansas, The Right Rev. Wm. M. Brown 69 
 
 " Asheville, N. C, The Right Rev. Junius M. Horner, 67 
 
 " Atlanta. The Right Rev. Cleland K. Nelson 66 
 
 " Bethlehem, The Right Rev. Ethelbert Talbot 58, 73 
 
 " California, The Right Rev. William, F. Nichols .... 47 
 " Central New York, Tlie Right Rev. Charles Tyler 
 
 Olmstead 69 
 
 " Chicago, The Right Rev. C. P. Anderson 62 
 
 " " Connecticut, The Right Rev. Chauncey B. Brewster. 60 
 " " Delaware, The Right Rev. J. Frederick Kinsman . . 68 
 
 " " Delaware, The Right Rev. Leighton Coleman 17,43 
 
 " Eastern Oregon, The Right Rev. Robert L. Pad- 
 dock 10, 65 
 
 " " Erie, The Right Rev. Rogers Israel 68 
 
 " " Florida, The Right Rev. Edwin Gardner Weed .... 66 
 
 " Fond du Lac, The Right Rev. Reginald H. Weller.. 63 
 
 " " Fond du Lac, The Right Rev. Charles C. Grafton... 65 
 
 " " Georgia, The Right Rev. Frederick F. Reese 69 
 
 " " Honolulu, The Right Rev. Henry B. Restarick .... 62 
 
 " Idaho, The Right Rev. James B. Funsten 67 
 
 " " Indianapolis, The Right Rev. Joseph M, Frances . . 63 
 
 " Kentucky, The Right Rev. T. U. Dudley 44 
 
 " " Kyoto, Japan, The Right Rev. Sidney C. Partridge, 70 
 
 " " Laramie, The Right Rev. Anson R. Graves 17, 44 
 
 " " Lexington, Ky., The Right Rev. Lewis W. Burton.. 58 
 " " Long Island, Tlie Right Rev. Frederick Burgess ... 63 
 " " Los Angeles, The Right Rev. Joseph H. Johnson . . 64 
 
 " " Louisiana, The Right Rev. Davis Sessums 66 
 
 " Maine, The Right Rev. H. A. Neely 17,44 
 
 " " Marquette, Mich., The Right Rev. G. Mott Williams, 60 
 
 " " Maryland, The Right Rev. William Paret 71 
 
 " " Massachusetts, The Right Rev. William Lawrence.. 70 
 
INDEX 119 
 
 PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL BISHOPS— Continued. 
 
 Page 
 
 Bishop of Mississippi, The Right Rev. Theodore D. Bratton .. 69 
 
 " Missouri, The Right Rev. Daniel S. Tuttle 46,71 
 
 " Montana, The Right Rev. Leigh R. Brewer 48 
 
 " Nebraska, The Right Rev. G. Worthington 47 
 
 " Nebraska, The Right Rev. Arthur L. Williams .... 65 
 
 " " Nevada, The Right Rev. Henry D. Robinson 66 
 
 " New Jersey, The Right Rev. John Scarborough ...17,44 
 " New Mexico and .Arizona, The Right Rev. John Mills 
 
 Kendrick 64 
 
 New Mexico, The Right Rev. I->cderick B. Howden, 61 
 
 " North Dakota, The Right Rev. Cameron Mann 70 
 
 " New York, The Right Rev. Henry C. Potter ...17,21,4.3 
 
 " Ohio, The Right Rev. William A. Leonard 58 
 
 " Olympia, Wash., The Right Rev. Frederick W. 
 
 Keator 58 
 
 " Oregon, The Right Rev. Charles Scadding 59 
 
 " Pennsylvania, The Right Rev. Ozi W. Whitaker .. 64 
 " Pennsylvania, The Right Rev. Philip ^L Rhinelan- 
 
 der 68 
 
 " the Philippines, The Right Rev. Charles Henry 
 
 Brent 67 
 
 " Pittsburgh. Pa., The Right Rev. Cortlandt White- 
 head 59 
 
 " Porto Rico, The Right Rev. James H. Van Buren .. 66 
 
 " Quincy, 111., The Right Rev. M. Edward Fawcett .. 62 
 
 " Rhode Island, The Right Rev. Thomas M. Clarke .. 45 
 
 " Rhode Island, The Right Rev. Wm. N. McVickcr . . 64 
 " Sacramento. Cal., The Right Rev. William H. More- 
 
 land 
 
 Shanghai. China, The Right Rev. Frederick R. 
 
 Graves 
 
 Southern Florida, The Right Rev. William Crane 
 
 Gray 63 
 
 .68,71 
 
 61 
 
120 INDEX 
 
 PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL BISHOPS— Continued. 
 
 Page 
 
 Bishop of Tennessee, The Right Rev. Thomas F. Gailor 60 
 
 " Tokyo, Japan, The Right Rev. John McKim 67 
 
 " Washington, D. C, The Right Rev. Alfred Harding, 68 
 " " Western Massachusetts, The Right Rev. Alexander 
 
 H. Vinton 60 
 
 " " Western Michigan, The Right Rev. John N. McCor- 
 
 mick 70 
 
 " West Missouri, The Right Rev. Edward' R. Atwill.. 64 
 
 " West Texas, The Right Rev. James S. Johnson 61 
 
 " West Virginia, The Right Rev. George W. Peterkin, 70 
 
 " Wyoming, The Right Rev. Nathaniel S. Thomas . . .59, 71 
 
 Secretary of The House of Bishops, The Rev. Samuel Hart ... 7Z 
 
 METHODIST-EPISCOPAL BISHOPS. 
 
 Bishop of Chattanooga, Tenn., The Right Rev. William F. An- 
 derson 74 
 
 " Pekin, China, The Right Rev. J. W. Basford 74 
 
 " " Washington, D. C, The Right Rev. Earl Cranston.. 74 
 
 " Chicago, 111., The Right Rev. William F. McDowell, 74 
 
 " Omaha, Neb., The Right Rev. John L. Nuelson 74 
 
 " " St. Louis, Mo., The Right Rev. Henry Spellmeyer. .51, 72i 
 
 " Philadelphia, The Right Rev. Luther B. Wilson ... 74 
 
 BISHOPS OF THE ANGLICAN CHURCH. 
 
 Bishop of Newcastle 46 
 
 Rochester 48 
 
 Peterborough 75 
 
 Ripon 75 
 
 Sheffield 75 
 
 Gloucester 77 
 
 Carlisle 75 
 
 Jarrow 76 
 
INDEX 121 
 
 BISHOPS OF THE ANGLICAN CHURCH— Continued. 
 
 Page 
 
 Bishop of Wakefield 76 
 
 " Bristol 76 
 
 " Southwell 76 
 
 " Thetford 76 
 
 " " Salisbury 76 
 
 " " Worcester ^^ 
 
 " " Stepney ^7 
 
 " " Aberdeen and Orkney 77, 78 
 
 " " Edinburgh 77 
 
 " Down, Connor and Dromore 78 
 
 " Island of St. Helena 79 
 
 " " Island of Mauritius 79 
 
 " Trinidad, W. 1 79 
 
 " Lucknow, India 79 
 
 " Lahore, India 80 
 
 " " Lebombo, Africa 80 
 
 Bishop Coadjutor of Capetown, Africa 79 
 
 Bishop of Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia 81 
 
 " " Gippsland, Victoria, Australia 81 
 
 " " Bendigo, Victoria, Australia 81 
 
 " " North Queensland, Australia 81 
 
 " " Goulburn, New South Wales 82 
 
 " " Nelson, New Zealand 82 
 
 " " Auckland, New Zealand 82 
 
 " " Melanesia, New Zealand 80 
 
 " " Tasmania 82 
 
 " " Qubec, Canada, The Right Rev. Andrew H. Dunn . . 83 
 " Ontario, Canada, The Right Rev. William Lennox 
 
 Mills 83 
 
 " " Toronto, Canada, The Right Rev, James Fielding 
 
 Sweeney 83 
 
 " " Algoma, Canada, The Right Rev. George Thorneloe, 82 
 
122 INDEX 
 
 BISHOPS OF THE ANGLICAN CHURCH— Continued. 
 
 Page 
 Bishop of Niagara, Canada, The Right Rev. John Philip De- 
 
 Moulin 84 
 
 " Calgary, Canada, The Right Rev. William C. Pink- 
 ham 83 
 
 " " Qu'Apelle, Canada, The Right Rev. John Grisdale . . 83 
 " " Keewatin, Canada, The Right Rev. Joseph Loft- 
 house 84 
 
 " " British Columbia, Canada, The Right Rev. William 
 
 W. Perrin 80 
 
 The Assistant Bishop of Toronto, Canada, The Right Rev. Wil- 
 liam D. Reeve 84 
 
 THE SALVATION ARMY. 
 
 General William Booth, Founder and Commander-in-Chief ... 57 
 
 THE VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA. 
 
 Ballington Booth, President 57 
 
 MINISTERS. 
 
 Protestant-Episcopal. 
 
 The Rev. Ernest M. Stires, St. Thomas's Church, New York, 85 
 
 John S. Bunting, Christ Church, Macon, Ga 85 
 
 Robert A. Edwards, St. John's Church, Holmesburg, 
 
 Pa 87 
 
 Robert Johnston, Church of the Saviour, Philadel- 
 phia, Pa 88 
 
 William T. Manning, Trinity Church, New York ... 85 
 (Now Bishop of New York.) 
 
 James S. Stone, St. James's Church, Chicago 86 
 
 Floyd W. Tomkins, Holy Trinity Church, Philadel- 
 phia, Pa 86 
 
 Elwood Worcester, Emmanuel Church, Boston, Mass., 87 
 William R. Turner, Memorial Church of St. Paul, 
 
 Overbrook, Philadelphia, Pa 86 
 
INDEX 123 
 
 MINISTERS— Continued. 
 
 Page 
 The Very Rev. Winfred H. Ziegler, .\rchdcacon, St. John's Ca- 
 thedral, Albuquerque, N. M 87 
 
 The Rev. Louis C. Washburn, Christ Church, Philadelphia, Pa., 85 
 " " Alexander Mann, Trinity Church, Boston, Mass. ... 86 
 
 Presbyterian. 
 The Rev, W. H. Roberts, Stated Clerk and Treasurer, General 
 
 Assembly, Philadelphia, Pa 88 
 
 " " Perry S. Allen, President, Presbyterian Ministers' 
 
 Fund, Philadelphia, Pa 88 
 
 " " John Grant Newman, The Chambers Wylie Memo- 
 rial Church, Philadelphia, Pa 89 
 
 " W. C. Robinson, Northminster Church, Philadel- 
 phia, Pa 89 
 
 •' " Guido Bossard, Overbrook Presbyterian Church, 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa 89 
 
 " " Samuel Y. Nicholls, Second Presbyterian Church, 
 
 St. Louis, Mo 89 
 
 " " George Rutger Brauer, First Presbyterian Church, 
 
 Setauket, L. 1 90 
 
 " W. Lyall Wilson, Dundee, Scotland 90 
 
 Baptist. 
 
 The Rev. George D. Adams, Chestnut Street Baptist Church, 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa 92 
 
 " " A. C. Applegarth, Chestnut Hill Baptist Church, 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa 92 
 
 " " George Dana Boardman, First Baptist Church, Phila- 
 delphia, Pa 12, 38, 48 
 
 " " Walter Calley, First Baptist Church, Jamaica Plain, 
 
 Boston, Mass 90 
 
 " " W. C. Golden, Corresponding Secretary, Tennessee 
 
 Baptist Convention, Nashville, Tenn 92 
 
124 INDEX 
 
 MINISTERS— Continued. 
 
 Page 
 The Rev. H. C. Rosamond, First Baptist Church, Eldorado, 
 
 Ark 91 
 
 " " L. Walton Terry, N. W. Baptist Convention, Ta- 
 
 coma. Wash 91 
 
 " " George L. White, General Missionary, Salt Lake City, 
 
 Utah 91 
 
 " " Kerr Boyce Tupper, First Baptist Church, Philadel- 
 phia, Pa 92 
 
 " '• David Carol Williams, First Baptist Church, Globe, 
 
 Ariz 91 
 
 " George W. Truett, First Baptist Church, Dallas, Tex., 93 
 " " Hulbert G. Beeman, Walnut Street Baptist Church, 
 
 Waterloo, Iowa 91 
 
 Lutheran. 
 
 The Rev. J. Eugene Dietterich, St. Paul's, Glenside, Pa 93 
 
 " " E. P. Pfatteicher, Holy Communion, Philadelphia, 
 
 Pa 93 
 
 " " H. H. Weber, General Secretary, York, Pa 93 
 
 S. A. Ziegenfuss, St. Michael's, Germantowrn, Phila- 
 delphia, Pa 94 
 
 Methodist. 
 Tlie Rev. W. Bamford, Cookman Church, Philadelphia, Pa. ... 94 
 " R. W. Webb, A. M. E. Church, Marche, Ark 95 
 
 First Church of Christ. 
 
 The Rev. Oscar Edward Maurer, First Church of Christ, New 
 
 Haven, Conn 95 
 
 Bible Christian Church. 
 
 The Rev. Henry S. Clubb, Bible Christian Church, Philadel- 
 phia, Pa 95 
 
 George Hamilton Combs, Independence Boulevard 
 
 Christian Church, Kansas City, Mo 96 
 
INDEX 
 
 125 
 
 MINISTERS— Continued. 
 Congregational Church. Page 
 
 The Rev. William V. Berg, Central Church, Philadelphia 96 
 
 Evangelists. 
 The Rev. W. E. Biederwolf, President of the Family Altar 
 
 League, Chicago, 111 96 
 
 Hebrew Church. 
 
 Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf, Philadelphia, Pa 96 
 
 Rabbi Henry Berkowitz, Philadelphia, Pa 97 
 
 BIBLE, SUNDAY SCHOOL, CHRISTIAN AND 
 OTHER ASSOCIATIONS. 
 
 International Committee of Young Men's Christian Associations, 
 
 G. S. Eddy, Associate General Secretary 100 
 
 International Sunday School Association, E. K. Mohr, Superin- 
 tendent Purity Department 97 
 
 International Sunday School Association, William Hamilton, 
 
 Chairman, Home and' Visitation Committee 100 
 
 Pennsylvania State Sabbath School Association, W. G. Landes, 
 
 General Secretary 97 
 
 Philadelphia County Sunday School Association, Emilie F. 
 
 Kearney, Teacher, Training Superintendent 98 
 
 Federation Women's Bible Classes, Annie Townsend Scribner, 
 
 President 99 
 
 Bethany (John Wanamaker's) Sunday School, Philadelphia, D. 
 
 L. Anderson, Assistant Superintendent, 25 Years, 99 
 
 American Red Cross, Philadelphia Chapter, David H. Wright, 
 
 Secretary 99 
 
 World's Conference on Faith and Order, Robert H. Gardner, 
 
 Secretary 100 
 
 Incorporated Synod, Diocese of Toronto, W. S. Battin, Secre- 
 tary and Registrar 101 
 
126 INDEX 
 
 BIBLE, SUNDAY SCHOOL, ASSOCIATIONS— .Continued. 
 
 Page 
 St. Andrew's Cross, Hubert Carleton, General Secretary and 
 
 Editor 100 
 
 The Home Missionary Society of the City of Philadelphia, 
 
 George H. Stuart, Jr., President 17, 98 
 
 PRESIDENTS OF UNIVERSITIES, COLLEGES 
 AND SEMINARIES. 
 
 Brown University, W. H. P. Faunce, President 102 
 
 Valparaiso University, Henry B. Brown, President 101 
 
 University of Michigan, James B. Angell, President 102 
 
 University of Pennsylvania, Edgar F. Smith, Provost 102 
 
 University of Texas, Sidney E. Mezes, President 103 
 
 University of Kansas, Frank Strong, Chancellor 104 
 
 Leland Standford, Jr., University, David Starr Jordan, President, 103 
 
 Lehigh University, Henry S. Drinker, President 103 
 
 Ohio University, Alston Ellis, President 103 
 
 Northwestern University, A. W. Harris, President 103 
 
 Williamette University, Fletcher Homan, President 106 
 
 University of Pennsylvania, Josiah H. Penniman, Provost ... 13, 103 
 
 Iowa State College, A. B. Storms, President 102 
 
 Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson, President 106 
 
 Lincoln Memorial University, W. P. Fairchild, President 105 
 
 Tufts College, Mass., F. W. Hamilton, President 102 
 
 Pennsylvania State College, Edwin W. Sparks, President 104 
 
 Franklin and Marshall College, J. H. Stahr, President 105 
 
 Berkeley Divinity School, Rev. Samuel Hart, Dean 73,107 
 
 Margaret College, Kentucky, Lewis W Burton, President 107 
 
 Drew Theological Seminary, Henry A Buttz, President 104 
 
 Augustana College, Gustav Andreen, President 105 
 
 Auburn Theological Seminary, George B. Stewart, President . . 105 
 
 German Theological School, Newark, D. R. Frazer, President, 106 
 
INDEX 127 
 
 OTHER EDUCATORS. 
 
 Page 
 Charles F. Kent, Professor of Bible Literature. Vale University, 107 
 Guido Bossard, Professor of Bible Literature, Du Buque Uni- 
 versity °^ 
 
 Warren Powers Laird, Dean, Department of Architecture, Uni- 
 versity of Pennsylvania U. 108 
 
 William Draper Lewis, Dean, Law School, I'niversity of Penn- 
 sylvania lOo 
 
 George E. Nitzsche, Recorder, University of Pennsylvania .... 109 
 Richard M. Jones, Head Master, William Penn Charter School, 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa 109 
 
 ACACIA FRATERNITY. 
 
 Acacia Fraternity, Cornell University, Allen Jayne, Secretary, 109 
 
 University of Chicago, Donald J. Pope, Sec- 
 retary 109 
 
 Columbia University, New York,E. P. Hum- 
 phrey, Secretary 1 10 
 
 Columbia University, New York, H. H. 
 
 Holmes, President HO 
 
 Harvard University, Floyd L. Duxbury, 
 
 Secretary 1 10 
 
 University of Kansas, Walter G. Theile, 
 
 Secretary 1 10 
 
 University of Michigan, L. S. Mercer, Sec- 
 retary Ill 
 
 OTHER PROMINENT LAYMEN. 
 
 Hon. Hampton L. Carson, President, American Bar Association, 111 
 Hon. George Wharton Pepper, United States Senator from 
 
 Pennsylvania Ill 
 
 Hon. George B. Orlady, President Judge, Superior Court of 
 
 Pennsylvania 1 1 1 
 
128 INDEX 
 
 OTHER PROMINENT LAYMEN— Continued. 
 
 Page 
 
 Charles F. Gallagher, Counselor at Law, Boston, Mass Ill 
 
 John A. Dix, ex-Governor of the State of New York 112 
 
 William Homan, Provincial Grand Treasurer for the U. S. Royal 
 
 Order of Scotland, New York 112 
 
 W. D. Vincent, Vice-President, Old National Bank, Spokane, 
 
 Wash 112 
 
 Mrs. Ida M. Ryan, Sufifern, N. Y 112 
 
 Brig.-Gen. F. S. Strong, U. S. Army 112 
 
 R. E. Field, Banker, Cincinnati, Ohio 113 
 
 Mary Dunn Kuser, Bordentown, N. J 113 
 
 Ellen E. Fay, Missionary, Faith Mission Kanbalu, Burma, India, 99 
 Alba B. Johnson, President Baldwin Locomotive Works, Phila- 
 delphia, Pa 113 
 
 Howard B. French, President, Philadelphia Chamber of Com- 
 merce 113 
 
 George H. Stuart, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa 17, 99 
 
 Francis B. Reeves, Philadelphia, Pa 113 
 
 John S. Bioren, President, Merchants' Union Trust Company, 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa 114 
 
 John A. Wiedersheim, Philadelphia, Pa 114 
 
 John McMurdie Warner, Philadelphia, Pa 114 
 
 George Bradford Carr, Member of the Philadelphia Bar 114 
 
 Rufus J. Foster, M. E., Scranton, Pa 115 
 
 William Waterall, Philadelphia, Pa 115 
 
 NEWSPAPERS. 
 
 "The New York Herald" 17,39 
 
 "The Philadelphia Press" 17, 39