July 1966 School Magazine

July, 1966

Brisbane Girls' Grammar School Magazine

Brisbane Girls' Grammar School Magazine ·

July, 1966

Bishop Webb er organized the diocese and it was during his episcopacy that the Cathedral neared its completion . In 1905, Brisbane became an archbishopric, St. Clair George Donaldson being the first Archbishop. Archbishop Donaldson brought into being St. Francis' College at Nundah. Under his leadership , Queensland became, perhaps, the most missionary minded of the Australian Provinces. Four dioceses have been created from the original See of Brisbane- North Queensland (1878), Rockhampton (1892), New Guinea (1898) and Carpentaria (1900). The town of Bowen was established in 1861 as a por t for the interior, a church was built, and the Rev . F. C. Grosvenor became the first priest. He also served the port of Townsville tintil the Rev. J . ~dams. cal'!le from Sydney to minister in 1870. The Rev. John Donne became Pansh Pnest m both Ra':'enswood and Charters Towers but it was felt that North Queensland was entirely too distant from episcopal headquarters in Sydney. Finally , in 1878, G~orge Stanton was consecrated first Bishop of North Queensland and enthroned m St. James' Pro-Cathedral , 1879. At the end of 1880's, drought and depression almost led. to the financial ruin of the diocese. After these years, North Queensland's third Bishop, Dr. S. H. Frodsham, a graduate of Durham, determined to restore _the Diocese. However in 1903, a cyclone destroyed much of the town of Townsville , including the Cathedral , whose foundatjon had _been laid in_ 188~. D~- Frodsh"!m crusaded for the establishment of the first medical research mstltute 1n Australia; he founded the Brotherhood of St. Barnabas and was also responsible for the founding, in London, of " The North Queensland Auxiliary" to keep up the flow of young priests from England to "the bush". Bishop Frodsham was followed by John Oliver Feetham , by "whose vision so splendid and whose sanctity so true, he has become one of the legends of the Australian Church". He was appointed head of the Brotherhood of the Good Shepherd and was the first Bush Brother Bishop in Queensland . He es~ab- !ished four boarding schools- All Souls ' School, Charters Towers, St. Gabnel's School, Charters Towers, St . Anne 's School, Townsville, and St. Mary's Sch~ol, Herberton. All Souls' School and St. Barnabas' School , Ravenshoe- se_t up dunng the episcopacy of Bishop Belcher in 1953-are conducted by the teachmi,; Brother- hood of St . Barnabas , and the Girls' Schools by the Community of the Sacred Advent. Mission stations are conducted at Yarrabah and Palm Island for aboriginals, and early developmen; was I_argely the work of the Rev . Joh? Gnbble, who arrived at the Yarrabah Mission m 1892. Under the present Bishop_, Rt. Rev . Ian Shevill, much building of modern and artistic chur_ches _has been achieved, including the completion of St. James ' Cathedral, Townsv1lle, m 1960. The vastness of the Diocese of North Queenslanc\ led to s~bdivision and ~he formation of the Diocese of Rockhampton in 1892 with Nathanial Dawes as first Bishop. The first Bush Brotherhood in Australia , that of St. Andrew, was formed when Bishop Dawes realized that the ordinary parochi"!l system was n?t at all suitable for the distances needed to be covered. The first four AustrahaJl Bush Brothers, committed to at least five years of a life of poverty, chastity and obedience, were Halford, Chapman, Perry and Scott. When New Guinea and Paoua became the responsibility of the Australian Government it was felt that the Australian Church should also be r esponsible for Papua and New Guinea. Progress in New Guinea has largely b~er; due to the work of missionaries associated with the Australian Board of Missions and with the Brotherhood of St . Francis . In 1891, the Rev. Albert Maclan;n and the Rev. Copland King arrived near Wedau in . B_ritish New Guin_ea. Sickness and the tropical climate all but wrecked the mission. Maclaren died and poor health forced Copland King to leave soon after. Three lay workers were left in charge of the mission, led by Mr. and Mrs .. Tomlm~on, so that by 1~92, Copland King, on returning, was able to resume his work '!1 the area . The ~irst baptisms were held on Easter Day , 1896., and iJ'\ 1898 th,; Diocese of 1';lew Gumea was created with John Montagu Stone-Wigg as Bishop . Bishop Stone-Wigg brought with him several additions to his staff including Rev. J. H. Newton . In 1993 , Mr . Tomlinson was ordained. Stationed at Mukawa, he translate~ the entire Bible into the dialect of his people . On 20th September, 1914, the first Papuans , Peter Rautamara and Edwin Nuagoro, were ordained de"!co_ns . Progress w_as made throughout the territory , esoecially with _ regard to rmss1ons to the Highlands, and in 1933, the Cathedral Church of Samts Peter and Paul was conse_crated by th e Archbishop of Brisbane, Doctor Wand. The Cathedral had been bmlt largely by native workmen, relays of them coming to Dogura. voluntanly ur;der the guidance of Robert Jones. During World War II, the d)O~ese . was ~ubiect_eq. to much fighting and many of the Church's workers, rem_ammg m their pos1t10ns, were martyred . Rehabilitation and extension are now m progress, ,and to New

mendation of Dr. Thomas Arnold of Rugby. Both Grammar Schools, under the charge of men in Holy Orders made great progress but the College, after a very chequered career, found itself in financial difficulties and in 1857 it was closed. In 1857, the first official Synod of the Diocese met in Hobart and its principal business was the passing of Acts concerning trial of ecclesiastical offences, patronage of · parishes and finance. . Bishop Nixon brought with him Archdeacon F. A. Marriott, who was able to mcrease the number of chaplams, and he was also given a grant of · money to p_r~vjde for the opening of Christ's College. In 1862, the government ceased subs1d1zmg the work of churches and instead made an annual grant the Church of England receiving £8,770. ' During the 1860's, the Tractarian movement within the church had its effects on . the_ Tasmanian chu_rch in the objections which were lodged against the ordmat1on o_f K . W. Kirkland, _accused of practising rituals, the erection of a stone altar m the church at Tnabunna , and the placing of a cross and candle- sticks on the altar of the cathedral. On . 8!11 January, . 1868, the Duke of Edinburgh, during the episcopacy of Tasmania s second bishop , Charles Henry Bromby, laid the foundation stone of a new cathedral in Hobart which was then first used in December, 1872, and consecrated on 5th February, 1874. The tower, however , was not completed until 1936 . Agam m 1900, the Synod was called upon to discuss certain Tractarian t endencies-auricular confession and prayers for the dead. . The Diocese of Tasmania continued to flourish for a century, and in 1955 1t had reached such proportions that an assistant Bishop was appointed . The Ven . W. R . Barrett, Archdeacon of Hobart , became Assistant Bishop and was consecrated by Bishop Cranswick. In 1824, a convict settlement was set up on the Brisbane River to replace that of Port Macquarie and for eighteen years, the settlement was closed to free settlers. In 1826, the Church and Schools' Corporation opened a school; Mrs. Esther Roberts was appointed teacher at a salary of £20 per annum and sixteen children had been enrolled by the end of the first term. However there was no provision for a church or a chaplain. Archdeacon Hobbes-Scott' visited the settlement in 1828 and authorized the assistant surgeon, Henry Cowper "who reads the prayers on Sunda)'.s , to . take burials if. necessary". A chaplain, the Rev. John Vmcent was appomted m 1829, but owmg to a quarrel with Logan, the commandant, he had returned to Sydney by 1830 . The next appointee was John Christian Handt, a missionary of the Church Missionary Society and, although Handt was a Lutheran, he probably used the Book of Common Prayer and he was a governm<,nt appointee. The first permanent priest, John Gregor, arrived m 1842, by_ which time free settlement was permitted. Gregor's first services were held m the courthouse, but later a church was set up and dedicated to St. John. Services were held in other districts in the area . After his death in a drowning accident in 1847, Bishop Broughton paid tribute to "the laborious zeal with which he devoted himself to convey the glad tidings of redemption to those far separated members of Christ's body" . Gregor was succeeded in 1848 by Benjamin Glennie, a deacon appointed to Brisbane by Bishop Tyrell of New- castle, whose diocese included Brisbane. Glennie, educated at Dulwich Grove and Christ 's College, Cambridge, conducted hi s first service in Brisbane on 26th March, 1~48, the beginning of a fifty-two year ministry in Queensland. He travelled tirelessly to the outlying centres of his parish and established a parish on the Darling Downs on 20th August, 1848, after Revs. Creyke and Mosely arrived to free him from duties in Brisbane. He suffered many hard- ships on his journeys -"Heat, mosquitoes and noise in the 'Clarendon' rendered sleeping very difficult" and " Gatton-noisy and uncomfortable-slept little". He appears to have been favourably , impressed by the Tractarian movement but was cautious in introducing its practices, and even more careful in carrying out the wishes of his Bishop. Archdeacon Glennie, first archdeacon of Brisbane died on 30th April, 1900, after a ministry which earned him the respect and affection of all connected with him. In 1859, Queensland, as far as the 19th parallel, was formed into a diocese , the r emaining area being part of the diocese of Sydney. Brisbane became the See town and Edward Wyndham Tufnell, the first bishop, was enthroned on 4th September, 1869. The first synod met on 6th May, 1868, its constitution having been drawn up by Judge Lutwyche . By 1868, chaplains had been appointed at Mackay and Bowen, where a church had been built in 1865 . In 1875, Tufnell was succeeded by Bishop Hale and he in turn by Bishop Webber in 1885 . Bishop Webber is described as a man of "sound wisdom combined with tireless energy" .

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