July 1966 School Magazine

July, 1966

Brisbane Girls' Grammar School Magazine

Brisbane Girls' Grammar School Magazine

July, 1966

and laity in the years 1860-1866 paved the way for the first Synod of _the Diocese in 1872. In 1875, Bishop Hale was transferred to Bnsbane and Bishop. Parry became the new Bishop of Perth in 1878. Under him, the_ Boar~ of Missio~s became stronger, a committee was instituted to promote religious instruction m day and Sunday Schools, a Board of Trustees was s!'t up for a Clergy W~dows and Orphans' Fund and a church newspaper was inaugurated. An aborigmal mission under the Rev. _Gribble was set up and the Cathedr_al was consecrated -the Cathedral Church of St. George-in 1888 on the anniversary of Bishop Parry's consecration. · During the gold discoveries, the See of Perth wa_s served by Bi.shop Riley and the goldfields by men such as Rev. E. M. Collick at Coolgard!e and _th~ Rev. R. H. Moore at Kanowena. The Sisters of the Church established girls, schools in 1901, of which Perth College was the ~ost important, and a boy 7 school, the Guildford Grammar School was opened m 1895, as well. as St . !olm s Theological College and orphanages which to-day care for 250 des!ltute children. The Church in Western Australia represents a middle po_sition in Church- manship and in 1914, Bishop Riley became Perth's first Archbishop. In 1826 a settlement was begun at Albany and Divine Service was taken in this are~ for a number of years by laymen, chief of whom was Tho,:rias B. Sherratt. Perth's Colonial Chaplain visited the settlement m 1835 and m 1848 the first permanent chaplain, the Rev. J. R . Wollaston, was transferred to Albany from Bunbury. He built a permanent church at Albany, and this was con- secrated in 1848 by Bishop Short. The settlement of Bunbury, or Australind, of "".hich Lieut. H .. W. Bunbury had said "I have seen no better place for a dairy . . .. a luxunous meadow country", was established in the early 1840's and. the Rev. _J. R. Wollaston ministered here from 1841 until 1848. He chose Picton as his home and by 1842 had built a church there . Through the efforts of John Ga~rett Bu.s~ell, another church was begun at the Vasse (Bussellton).. In 1870, the first Auxiliary of the British and Foreign Bible Society was established at. Bunbury_. · !n 1927, the Order of the Sisters of St. Elizabeth of Hungary established a ipr/s school at Katanning, and cared for 200 children at a F_arm School !'ear PmJarra.. In 1888, the Guild of St . George was instituted by Kmgs!ey Faubridge ',nd cc;msis~ed of Communicants and church workers; in_ the same year a Communicants Union was formed. The development of the area of Bunbur~ owes much to the. efforts of De.an Goldsmith who, in 1904, became Bunbury s first Bishop. Bishop Gol

Britain and the Territory of New Guinea has been added Papua to enlarge the Diocese of New Guinea. In 1936, David Hand was consecrated to supervise this area as Assistant Bishop. The Diocese of Carpentaria covers North Queensland Diocese's northern section and Central Australia. It was created in 1900 and Gilbert White became its first Bishop. The seat of the diocese is on Thursday Island at the Quetta Memorial Church. The Church of England began work in the Diocese, including the Torres Strait Islands, when the London Missionary Society withdrew from the islands. A theological college, St. Paul's at Moa, has been set up to train native clergy. The Brotherhood of the Good Shepherd at Bathurst ministers in Central Australia, while the Brotherhood of St. Barnabas performs similar work in the Gulf Country. In 1829, the first settlers in Western Australia arrived but without a chaplain, the Rev. J. B. Wittenoom being unable to come. Divine Service every Sunday was held by the Commanding Officer of the 63rd Regiment, Captain Frederick Chidley Irwin and with the wreck of H.M.S. "Success" at Fremantle and the consequent landing of Archdeacon Hobbes-Scott, Holy Communion was first celebrated on Christmas Day, 1829. Irwin. built a little mud and thatch church in three weeks on the Swan in 1830. The Rev. Wittenoom arrived in January, 1830, and he then had to minister at Perth, Fremantle and Guildford. As a result of Irwin's efforts, in 1835, the "West Australian Missionary Society", later to become the "Colonial and Continental Church Society", was formed in England. Five churches were established in the area by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel and the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge but still there were no resident clergy. In 1836, an Italian convert from Roman Catholicism, Dr. Louis Guistiani, took charge at Guildford but he was extremely unsatisfactory because he "was said to speak four languages fluently of which English was certainly not one". However, he did establish a church at Guildford and also bought 900 acres of land nearby, where the first orohans' home was later begun. . Dr. Guistiani was succeeded by Rev. William Mitchell, a fo-r~er missionary in India. Another layman, John Garrett Bussell, whose greatest desire was to enter the ministry, -had been forced to emigrate from England at the death of his father. Bussell held prayer meetings and was able to build a church. He returned to England in 1838 but was unable to be ordained. In 1830-, Mr. Wittenoom had arrived. He held services at Perth, preached at Fremantle and Guildford and was careful in keeping registers and in advising young couples on marriage. However, Mr. Wittenoom remains first and fore- most, an educationalist -"The Father of Education in Western Australia", and he began a classical and English school in 1838. Churches were built in the Upper and Middle Swan districts and in 1841, four more chaplains '!'rrived and were appointed. to these districts . Be~een 1841 and 1856, two mmisters were lari,:ely responsible for holdmg the _Anglican Communion together-John Ramsden Wollaston and Augustus Short, Bishop of Adelaide including Western Australia. The Rev. Wollaston. although "unceasingly missing 'the comforts of his English home", was a refreshing influence on the clergy of the time, and accepted as their mouthpiece. In his later years, he was apt to be despondent describing the moral state of the colony affectively in "The Sabbath is selected as a rlav for pre-eminent drunkenness and profligacy". He, however, _accomplished the finishini,: of his own church at Picton and the opening of an elaborate stone one at J::remantle . When Au~ustus Sho_rt became Bishop of Adelaide in 1847, the position of the Ch!-'rch m A':1stralia be.came much improved. Churches were consecrated and cluldren confir",'.1ed. 1?ishop Short appointed Wollaston, "respected and beloved by all classes Archaeacon to care for the Diocese in his absence. Even as early as 1847, men were agitating for the formation of a diocese and with t_he advent of Bishop _Short. Western Australia imoroved tremendously. The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel and the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge did much to liquidate the debts incurred by building the churches and also to pay the stipends of several of the clergy and an A_rchdeacon. In 1848, Governor Charl~s Fitzgerald realized that the colony was dymg from lack of labour and. that, m order to restore prosperity, convict labour was necessar~. The convicts sent out were extraordinarily respectable and a wave of prosperity followed. In 1850, Bishop Broughton . Metropolitan of J).ustralia, called t_oget~er a con- ference of Bishoos and one direct result of this was the cre'!'tion i_n 1856 of the See of Perth. Archdeacon M. B. Hale was chosen as first Bishop and consecrated in 1857. He was able to appoint the first Dean of P_erth, the V~ry Rev. G. P. Pownall, and to open a second~ry school for boys m 1858. which later became known as the Hale School. Conferences of clergy and of clergy

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