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A young Worcester man, Henry A.F. Hoyt, was the instrument chosen to rescue the great bible from the chancel of the first All Saints Church on Pearl Street, as it burned on Tuesday of Easter week, 1874. Contemporary report has him rushing into the burning building and carrying the book to safety. He placed it in the hands of Dr. Huntington who continued to use it in the new church on Irving Street.

Hoyt entered the priesthood, eventually becoming rector of St. John's Church, Bala Cynwyd, Penn. He returned to All Saints for many successive All Saints Night union services where he read from that same bible. He presented a stained glass window in the north cloister in memory of his wife, Mary Tirrell Hoyt.

 

After the 1932 fire, Dr. Huntington's bible was rescued a second time. The parish history says that it "lay for sev­eral weeks soaked with moisture, un­der the great stones of the transept arch; it was thence recovered, repaired by Horace F. Phillimore, an expert bookbinder and a communicant of the Parish, and restored to almost perfect condition; it has subsequently been used for read­ing the Lessons at the All Saints Day Festival Service."

The first gift promised to All Saints in the days following the fire came from Rev. Hoyt, then 88 years old. It was used for a pillar in the south transept, again a memorial to his late wife Mary Tirrell Hoyt, and so inscribed.
Rev. Hoyt died at almost 90 years of age. His funeral was the first to be celebrated in the rebuilt church, on April 25,1934.

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The Hon. Edward Livingston Davis, businessman, mayor of Worcester in 1874 and state senator in 1876, was warden of All Saints Church from 1871 to 1902. From 1874 onward he chaired the building committee for the new Irving Street church.

In 1890, John Singer Sargent immortalized his wife, the former Maria Louisa Robbins, together with their son, Livingston, in one of his most critically successful portraits. Edward and Mary Louisa, in June 1886, gave to All Saints a large burial plot in Hope Cemetery for “interment of communicants dying dependent on charity of All Saints.” It would accommodate 22 burials. In 1896 it was decided to exchange the plot for a larger one, on the west side of Edgewood Avenue, which would provide for 72 interments. The Davises agreed to this.

A cross was to mark the lot when $600 had been subscribed. By July 1897 this was achieved and a pink granite Celtic cross 14 feet high, designed by the Norcross firm, was consecrated. On its front is inscribed, “In memory of parishioners in the care of All Saints” and on the reverse, “Make them to be numbered with thy saints in glory everlasting.” The plot is still the property of All Saints, monies having been raised by 1902 for its perpetual care.

To find the All Saints lot, from Hope Avenue follow the main road toward the back of the cemetery. Just beyond the Odd Fellows monument, the All Saints cross stands on the hill to the right.

 

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At a meeting on October 11, 1861, the Ladies Missionary Sewing Circle of All SaintsChurch decided to hold a church fair in early December and to assign the proceeds to the purchase of a marble baptismal font for the church. The fair was held at Brinley Hall on December 11, 1861 "and quite met the expectations of the ladies". On December 14th, the Sewing Circle authorized The Rev. Hager, Rector, "to order a font to be made of white marble similar to a pattern which he showed them; the price of the font was $155.00. The proceeds of the fair not amounting to that sum, the deficiency was made up from the treasury of the society"

The font was boxed and delivered to Rev. E. W. Hager for the sum of $155.00 by Fisher and Bird, marble workers, of 460-466 Fulton Street, New York and placed centrally just before the chancel in the Pearl Street All Saints Church where it remained until the church burned in 1874.

The font survived the 1874 fire and was transferred to the Baptistry of the new church at the corner of Irving and Pleasant Streets, consecrated in 1877 A second fire consumed that church in 1932 but the font miraculously survived a second time. In a pageant held in 1935 commemorating the centenary of the parish, one character is made to say "Yon font survives! Baptized by fire, it still will bring to birth of spirit our children and our children's children. The true church, which is the spiritual temple not made with hands, is still unscathed." The font still serves the same purpose today, moved from the Baptistry to the Crossing to symbolize the necessity of passing through Baptism before approaching the Altar and the Eucharist.

 

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In 1998 a committee was formed at All Saints to explore the possibility of creating a columbarium for the interment of ashes in the church. Committee members visited other churches where columbaria had been installed, weighed the virtues of seven possible sites in and around the church (including the tower room, courtyard and baptistry) and discussed the project with two different manufacturers. In the end it was a design produced by Donald Samick of Lamb Studios of Ridgewood, N.J. which was thought the most fitting.

The J&R Lamb firm, founded in 1857, had made a name for itself with superb quality ecclesiastical constructions of all kinds, especially windows and columbaria. The committee, together with Samick, agreed upon a spot on the left hand wall of the chapel, which could be linked with a space on the other side of the wall, in the chancel where the organ console had formerly stood, to create the necessary depth. For the columbarium two great doors, to match the existing panelling of the chapel, would be created, to preserve the visual unity of the room. Inside, a second set of doors, this time of glass, would permit viewing without access and would offer protection for the 48 single and 16 double spaces planned. A contract for the work was signed on June 16,2000.

To date there are 7 double spaces and 38 single spaces still available, out of an original total of 64. Interment here, beyond the obvious advantage of location, offers perpetual care, a choice of spaces and a one-time income to All Saints Church. For those in whose lives All Saints has played a major role, it is hard to think of a more fitting resting place. You may speak to the rector or business administrator if you are interested in knowing more. The columbarium's double-panelled wooden doors are open for festival days, including All Saints Day, Christmas, Easter and Pentecost.

 

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St. John's was created by All Saints in 1884 as a mission and a satellite church, one of four, at the behest of Dr. William Reed Huntington. One hundred and twenty-five years later it closed. A small number of its liturgical vessels have come to All Saints.

The first, a chalice of hammered silver, decorated with an interlace design of Celtic or Scandinavian origin, was given to St. John's at an unknown date by its parishioners Clara Bachus, Frank MacNeill, Ada Norton, Nathan Rice, Samuel Woodside, and Melinda and John Rankin. The gold wash of its interior is in need of restoration.

A travelling communion service in silver, made by Gorham of Providence, is housed in a back leather case in­scribed "For All Saints." On the paten is written "From Josephine Lord Ranlet in loving memory of her mother Josephine C. Smith. Easter 1910." Mrs. Smith was a parishioner of All Saints who died in that year and was buried in Rural Cemetery. The third vessel, a silver communion flagon, by an unknown maker, is inscribed "To the glory of God and in living memory of Ida Everett Howe, born January 29,1859. Died July 29,1878." Miss Howe was likewise an All Saints parishioner, buried in Rural Cemetery from All Saints on August 1,1878 at 19 years of age. It seems especially fitting that these objects, particularly the lat­ter two with their strong All Saints connections, should come to us. For them to resume their role in the liturgical life of the mother par­ish will, in a way, continue Dr. Huntington's mission. Our gratitude to those who effected this.

 

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A women's group was organized by the Rev. Dr. William Reed Huntington in 1876 for the purpose of fundraising for the parish. It was originally known as the L.B. Club, the membership to be comprised of unmarried young women. No source has been found to explain the meaning of the initials except one witty historic entry that the initials probably meant Looking for Bachelors!

The L.B. Club very shortly became the Wednesday Club, raising monies for the many needs of the parish. Fairs and publications, were a lucrative source of income for the club. In 1901, a change was made in the structure and the club was divided into 5 parts to "devise methods of useful activity for young women of the parish." As the young women members married, it was determined that the club should begin to include married women in the membership. The club developed into a group that not only raised money but also sponsored many parish activities.

Among the many gifts given through the fundraising efforts of the Wednesday Club, a contribution was made to the Worcester window of the Huntington Memorial Chapel in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City, a recognition of Dr. Huntington's work in the National Church, and the Ruth window formerly installed in the original library (the present choir room) and moved to the hallway outside our present library during the 1998 Capital Cam­paign. In 1961, the Wednesday Club celebrated its 85th anniversary and then was "retired." The members transferred to the Sewing and Supply Group.

 

 

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When St. Helen's Parish (which dated to 680 a.d.) was absorbed in its sister parish of All Saints, both in Worcester, England, its liturgical furnishings were declared redundant. All Saints, England, offered the St. Helen's Chalice (actually Cup) to All Saints, Worcester (Mass.) as a thank offering for America's help to the mother country during the Second World War, and as a recognition of the ties binding together the two cities. A dedicatory inscription explains this.

On November 25,1945, the chalice was presented to our rector, Dr. Richard Greeley Preston, and wardens Albert Rice and C. Claflin Young, at morning prayer, by the Hon. Bernard Ponson by Sullivan, British consul-general in Boston. Also present were representatives of the five other Episcopal parishes in Worcester, four of which were created as missions at the impetus of Dr. William Reed Huntington.

The chalice is of silver-gilt, delicately chased with foliage and scrollwork, and struck with the hallmark of an unknown 16th century London maker. A silver-gilt paten dated 1571 rests atop the chalice. In the late 16th century the English church commissioned many new chalices during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, of which this is one.

It arrived in, and continues to be stored in, an oaken box made from old timbers taken from All Saints, Worcester, England.

 

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After the loss of the Pearl Street church, when the new All Saints on Irving Street was being built in 1874, a request was made to All Saints,, Worcester, England, for a stone of some antiquity from the fabric of Worcester Cathedral, to be used as a cornerstone of the new building. Though John D., Washburn, a vestryman from 1871-96, travelled to England to meet the dean of the cathedral, nothing suitable was found. However, Washburn was offered some ornamental stones of medieval origin if a place could be found for them. According to the dean, \"They come from the Lady Chapel which is a very beautiful specimen of early English architecture at the east end of the cathedral.\" He further recommended that a brass plaque be made to accompany them which would explain their origin and present them as \"a token of brotherly regard and Christian unity.\"

Dr. William Reed Huntington, rec­tor of All Saints, acknowledged the gift in a letter of thanks on November 12,1874, saying, \"The precious stones (for such they really are to us) have just this moment arrived.\" They would be stored until the new building was far enough advanced for them to be installed.

They were duly inserted into the wall of the tower vestibule, along with the brass plaque, where they are still to be seen.

 

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Among the possibilities for memorials offered to parishioners in 1932 by the architects Frohman, Robb and Little (through the Memorials committee) were the supporting pillars of the nave. The two tallest columns which would separate the nave from the north and south transepts were available at $1,500 each. The smaller columns between the nave and the side aisles were $1,000 each. The Rev. Henry A.F. Hoyt of Bala Cynwyd, Penn., gave the larger column in the south transept in memory of his wife, Mary Tirrell Hoyt. The corresponding north column was given by Mrs. William A. Condy in memory of her husband, Captain William Alexander Condy.

In the north aisle, one pillar was given by the Misses Marble in memory of Emily Greene Marble and a second by Mrs. William F. Cole, Miss Emily F. Bauer and Mrs. Lewis G. Beck, in memory of Paul Bauer. One pillar in the south aisle was given by the All Saints Society by the Lake (about whom more later) and another in memory of Sarah Eliza Sigourney Tuckerman, by Edward T. Esty. Only the last one is anonymous, with no dedicatory inscription.

All the others are identified as memorials by gilt lettering cut into their bases on the aisle sides. These inscriptions were submitted to and approved by the donors. The cutting was done by the Lualdi firm of East Cambridge, who also designed and executed the new reredos. .

 

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Both an organization and a movement, FISH was founded in England in 1961 by an Anglican clergyman who wanted a framework within which to offer aid and comfort to people in need. (Its name, in Greek, stands for Jesus Christ, Son of God Savior.) By the time the Rev. Edward Hook, rector of All Saints from 1966-1971, and his committee of eight parishioners had created a Worcester branch of FISH in 1966, based at All Saints Church, the movement had spread throughout the world, from England to Japan. At its height, Worcester FISH was made up of almost 100 volunteers who manned the phones and themselves provided the requested services, like rides for elders, or sought referrals for more complex requests beyond their ability to satisfy. The organization had no budget: funding came from the rector's discretionary fund and fromAll Saints Church
FROM THE RECTOR \". ..being attentive to the times of the day... the reason that we don't take time is a feeling that we have to keep moving. This is a real sickness. We live in the fullness of time. Each moment is God's own good time. The whole thing boils down to giving ourselves in prayer, a chance to realize that we have what we seek. We don't have to rush after it. It was there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.\" --Thomas Merton. Other area churches which gradually joined with All Saints. The movement was ecumenical, described as \"simply a group of people who need to express their love and concern for their neighbors. The neighbor does not need to be a Christian or a member of a particular church. The neighbor will never be asked to obligate himself or listen to any lecture. There is no charge for any service FISH provides. FISH considers it a privilege to help anyone. It is made up of ordinary people who will try to be a good neighbor to anyone.\" In 1968, Worcester FISH received 254 calls. By 1972 that number had risen to 578. Callers asked for companionship and advice; for someone to collect fallen pears to give to the poor; for emergency shelter and protection from a violent husband—in fact a resolution of any sort of challenge a human could face. As the seventies wore on, requests for aid declined. By 1979, as few as 20 calls per month were being fielded, it was decided to disband Worcester FISH, since the city was now providing many of the services FISH had offered. While it lasted, FISH was a visible presence in the world of Christ's call to love one another.

 

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“Other sheep I have. Them also I must bring...” C. Grant Bowker was an active churchman, vestry member of All Saints Church for 25 years, holder of several diocesan offices and elected junior warden in 1953. Upon his death in July 1954, a committee was formed to search for an appropriate memorial to honor his years of service to All Saints. Because the fourth side of the courtyard toward Irving Street was now closed by the new parish house, it was thought fitting to embellish it with a fountain which would serve as his memorial. The committee approached Walker Hancock, architect and sculptor, of Gloucester, who made a specialty of such work. His design features a bronze figure of the Good Shepherd, cradling a lamb in his arm.

Water flows from a rock beneath his feet into the first basin and then through four plaques into the lower basin. Each plaque is carved with the symbol of an Evangelist: the lion of St. Mark, the eagle of St. John, the winged man of St. Matthew and the ox of St. Luke, symbolizing the outpouring of the Holy Gospel. Around the edge of the lower basin the dedicatory inscription, in memory of Grant Bowker, is cut.

The fountain was dedicated on October 27, 1957 by, among others, the Rt. Rev. Henry Wise Hobson, bishop of Southern Ohio and rector of All Saints from 1921-1930. Around the edge of the upper basin is inscribed, “Other sheep I have. Them also I must bring. There shall be one flock.”

 

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Occasionally we who work in the All Saints achives run across some interesting bits about our parish history. This is from a 1954 report of the Building Committee about the construction of our parish house: \"One interesting problem arose because of our ancestors who had occupied the ground before even the original All Saints parish house had been built. In those days the level of the land surface was ten feet or more below the present grade [pre­sumably this refers to Irving Street]. There was a farm house on the property and the farmer had a well thirteen feet deep. The top of this well was found just at the bottom of our cellar excavation. The bad feature was that the well came exactly where we needed a firm foundation for one of our supporting columns. Thus we had to spend an extra $700 to construct a concrete pier two feet square beginning at the bottom of the well and extending upward the thirteen feet before reaching the position where the footing would normally have been placed.\"

In the late 19th century, the women of All Saints joined together in organizations to benefit both the parish and missions of the wider church. In the 1885 Wednesday Club publication \"The Christmas Holly,\" there is found a writing about The Kitchen Garden School. This organization, started by a Miss Huntington of New York, was for the betterment of girls:\".. .a combination of songs, exercises and plays, designed to train a child in simple housework.... waiting on the door, bed-making, laying the table, sweeping and dusting, and all laundry processes. The object is to train children in that important work of woman.... making them realize that, as sisters and daughters, they should strive to make home the brightest happiest place possible to brothers and fathers.... On Wednesday afternoons a class of twenty-four little girls will be taught by a young lady trained by Miss Huntington, assisted by members of the Club, and we trust that this small beginning may grow into a large and important work.\"

 

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The stained glass window in the north transept was designed and made by G. Owen Bonawit of New York and kept in his studio there as an example of his artistry. It was originally one great pane of glass and was celebrated enough in its time to be featured in Life magazine, April 3, 1939, in an article on the renaissance of stained glass in America. Bonawit was already well known for his work at Yale, especially his stained glass panels in the Sterling Memorial Library there. Bonawit based the style and the content of the window on an "early mosaic period" window from the 13th century at Chartres Cathedral. It contained no symbolism, only the simple subject matter, "to evoke the spirituality of old glass." Its coloration was intended to look best at twilight, when it would appear.

When Bonawit was about to close his studio in 1941, due to lack of work in wartime, Donald Robb, partner in the Frohman, Robb and Little firm which had rebuilt the destroyed All Saints Church, saw it there and thought it might be adapted for the triple lancet window in the north transept at All Saints. It would need only minor alterations to convert it from a single panel to three lancets. In an unsigned letter of March 16,1942, Dr. Richard Greeley Preston, rector, asked that a panel showing the Flagellation of Christ be replaced with one of the Resurrection, and that the unnecessary elements removed from the windows' original configuration be boxed and sent to Worcester.

The cost of the window, $1,000 including reinforcing bars, with a further $486 for alterations, was bourne by Paul Morgan, who gave the window as a memorial gift. It was dedicated on May 10,1942.

 

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The Pulpit Carved of oak by Irving, Casson and Davenport, a firm of architectural and decorative woodworkers of East Cambridge, the pulpit was a gift of Mrs. John C. Dewey in memory of her husband, John Clarke Dewey. It cost $2,000 and was dedicated, along with other memorials, on Whitsunday, May 20, 1934.

Three figures important to the history of All Saints, were chosen to be depicted on it. Phillips Brooks, rector of Trinity Church, Boston, and bishop of the Diocese of Western Massachusetts, who often preached at All Saints, occupies the central panel. To the left is Dr. William Reed Huntington, beloved rector of All Saints from 1862 to 1883. He holds and points at a book, a reference to his participation in the revision of the Book of Common Prayer in 1882. On the right is the Rt. Rev. Alexander Hamilton Vinton, rector of All Saints from 1884 to 1902.

With his right hand he grasps his pectoral cross, a symbol of his role as the first bishop of the newly established Diocese of Western Massachusetts in 1902. In 1980 it was decided to add a fourth figure, that of Dr. Richard Greeley Preston, rector of All Saints from 1933-1958. The commission was given to Archangelo Cascieri, of the Boston Architectural Center, who carved the figure in medium relief and applied it to the flat panel. It was dedicated on November 1, 1981.

All along the top of the pulpit runs a frieze of grapes and grape leaves, a reference to the Eucharist. More stylized grapes decorate the bosses at the bottom of the pulpit.

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When The Wednesday Club, the principal women’s club of All Saints Church, celebrated its 20th anniversary in 1896, the members decided to commemorate the event by funding the renovation of the library (the present choir room). As a first step they commissioned three stained glass windows to fill the openings in the room’s south alcove. In the center panel was the full length figure of Ruth, “standing in a golden wheat field, while behind her rises a little hillock of sunlit green, and still further beyond, the dark shadowy outlines of the trees against a blue sky.” She cradles a sheaf of wheat in her arms, a reference to her search for food for her mother-in-law, Naomi.

The design, by Sydney Guild, was executed by Mess’rs. Edwin Ford and Frederick Brooks of Boston, whose firm (active 1890-1905) worked in the opalescent stained glass vernacular popular at the time. Among their best known commissions is the French Explorer’s window (1895) in Memorial Hall, Harvard College, a gift of the class of 1875.

The flanking windows centered, on the right, the seal of All Saints Church and on the left, the seal of The Wednesday Club. The central lunette above was inscribed “Gift of The Wednesday Club,” flanked by the dates 1876 and 1896, marking the club’s anniversary.

In 1926 the library was converted into a choir room by the architect Norman Sturgis of Albany (N.Y.); its newly panelled walls concealed storage for music. The room survived the 1932 fire intact but the post-fire reconstruction robbed the windows of illumination. When the new handicapped-accessible entrance from the parking lot was planned in 1997-98, it was decided to move Ruth to a position on axis with the corridor leading from the Guild Room to the library. The flanking windows with their seals were left in place but reversed and backlit, to be read inside the new vestibule. Ruth still presides outside the entrance to the library, a silent witness to the largesse of TWC and to the importance of the role women of the parish have played in the growth and enhancement of All Saints.

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St. Mark’s Mission to the Deaf was organized at All Saints Church on October 23, 1887, although signed services had already been held for some unspecified time, under the direction of the Rev. Thomas Gallaudet (1822- 1902). A pioneer in services to and for the deaf, son of a deaf mother and husband to a deaf wife. Rev. Gallaudet had established St. Anne’s Church for Deaf Mutes in New York City in 1852 and the Gallaudet Home for Deaf Mutes in Poughkeepsie (N.Y.) in 1885. One of his students, Henry Syle, became the first deaf person to be ordained an Episcopal priest. Rev. Gallaudet’s services at All Saints were generally held on the last Sunday of the month, with an average attendance of 16.

By 1897, Dr. S. Stanley Searing from Boston was supervisor of signed services at All Saints, with Edmund Frisbee as lay reader. Dr. Searing was instrumental in founding the New England Home for Deaf Mutes in Allston in 1903, which later moved to Everett and then Danvers. He continued the Sunday services after Dr. Gallaudet’s death in 1902, holding 12 in the course of the year and attracting communicants from the parish as well as the 30 or 40 in the city of Worcester “dependent on the church’s ministrations.”

All Saints supported the only established mission to the deaf in the Western Massachusetts diocese by 1905. Sunday services were held by the priest-in-charge to the deaf, George H. Hefflon. Rev. Hefflon began his ministry as a layman at Christ Church Cathedral, Hartford, and was ordained deacon in 1907 and priest in 1910. After his death in 1925 he was granted the epitaph, “He devoted his whole life to his comrades.”

The Silent Mission at All Saints continued at least until 1935 when it was mentioned in the Centennial History; at some subsequent time it ceased. The parish archives contain no information on who directed it after 1925, and when and why its operations ended. Anyone who can shed light on these questions please speak to a member of the Archives Group as we are interested in the possible recent history of this great mission.
Thanks to Charley Labonte for supplying much of the foregoing history.

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During the reconstruction of All Saints Church in 1932-1934, it was decided, from motives of economy, to postpone the creation of the principal door on Irving Street. A temporary wall and doors were inserted in the opening until sufficient funds could be raised to realize the design which the architects, Frohman, Robb and Little, had prepared. The temp lasted through the war years and after 1945 the decision was made to construct the door as a memorial to "express our gratitude to God for the sacrifice of those who served our country in the last war to preserve the ideals of freedom and democracy." The portal was dedicated to the glory of God on All Saints Sunday, November 2, 1947.

An arch and pilasters of Longmeadow brownstone encloses a tympanum on which is centered the seal of All Saints Church carved from a single stone. No other sculptural decoration relieves the severity of the design. The wooden double doors are adorned with bronze rings specially designed for them.

In connection with the memorial door, a Book of Remembrance was commissioned to record the names of the nine All Saints parishioners who died in the war, and the 366 parishioners who served. Also included were the names of 75 people from ourside the parish who contributed to the cost of the door, and the 505 parishioners who were donors. Kept in the locked vault are two copies of the book, one bound in red morocco, which are masterpieces of the printer's art. A wooden case mounted on the narthex wall to the left of the doors was said to contain a copy of this book, but when the case was opened a few years ago, after some difficulty, it was found to be empty.

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Episcopalianism in Worcester When William Reed Huntington came to All Saints in 1862, the church had only 150 communicants. It was his wish not only to grow and strengthen his parish but to spread Episcopalianism throughout the greater Worcester area. To that end he determined to create four new satellite parishes in the city, each named for one of the four Evangelists. The first one, St. Matthew’s, was sponsored as a mission by the Women of All Saints and opened for worship in 1871.

Though Dr. Huntington left for Grace Church, New York, in 1883, his intent was taken up by his successor, the Rev. Alexander H. Vinton, who oversaw the establishment of two more parishes: St. John’s, a mission founded by the Wednesday Club of All Saints and opened in the Lincoln Square area in 1884, and St. Mark’s, off south Main Street, where services began in 1887. All three churches were designed by Stephen Earle, architect and parishioner of All Saints, who “jumped ship” to join St. John’s.

The fourth church, St. Luke’s, was created as a Sunday School mission by All Saints in 1908, after Dr. Vinton’s departure in 1901, and its church built in 1910, to serve the burgeoning streetcar suburbs of the West Side. (Worcester’s fifth Episcopal church, St. Michael’s-on-the-Heights of 1927, was not part of Huntington’s vision but the Rev. Henry W. Hobson, rector of All Saints at the time, was among the planners who created it to serve for northern Worcester.)

The role of All Saints as Mother Church for all subsequent Worcester parishes is reflected in its seal. According to a brief note found among the papers of The Wednesday Club, Dr. Vinton designed the seal in the early 1880s, during the first years of his tenure at All Saints. Surrounding the central name of the church are the symbols of the four Evangelists, reading clockwise from the top: the angel of St. Matthew, the bull of St. Luke, the eagle of St. John, and the lion of St. Mark. Within there is the inscription, in Greek, from Ephesians (3:18), which translates, “what is the breadth and length and depth and height” of the love of Christ. It might also be taken to refer to the physical dimensions of Dr. Huntington’s vision of the Episcopal Church in Worcester and the ultimate fulfillment of that vision.


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Above and to the right and left of the main door on Irving Street are two circular reliefs containing portrait heads of two prophets: Simeon and Anna. When Jesus was first presented in the temple as a boy, Simeon, who had been told by God that he could not die until he had beheld the Messiah, saw his release in Jesus, “a light for revelation to the Gentiles and for glory to your people Israel.” (Luke 2:26-35) The elderly Anna, also present, recognized in Jesus the savior of Jerusalem. (Luke 2:36-38)

These portraits were set in place in the Irving Street façade of All Saints Church in 1876 and were reinstalled in the new façade in 1934, after the fire of 1932. They are appropriate figures for the entrance to a church as they announce and introduce Jesus and recognize his role as savior of mankind.

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