also understood the value of the various Church organizations and Associations ‘ and attempted to implement some aspects of instruction and sense of communal worship and prayer in each of these groups. There were a number of su:h groups and associations in operation in 1887: the St. Peter’s Sewing Society, District Visitors, the Guild of St. Mary the Virgin for women, the Guild of the Holy Cross for boys, Mite Collectors, the Girls’ Friendly Society, the Iand of Hope, and the Association for Intercessory Prayer (with over 40 members, over 1,000 subjects for intercession having been sent in during the past year, and steps being taken to establish branches in the different missions on the Island).

Father Simpson began slowly to increase the number of celebrations of Holy Communion offered at the Cathedral with his eventual aim being the implementation of a schedule for daily Eucharist. Throughout the course of 1887 he celebrated the Lord’s Supper on a total of 32 additional occasions, bringng the number for the year to 162. He saw this as a vitally important aspect of Cathedral life needed to encourage and initiate individual personal gromh in devotion and spirituality. During the year, an additional $442.90 was collected and deposited in the Memorial fund which had been established to cmer the building expenses for a chapel to be dedicated in loving memory of Fazher George Wright Hodgson, the first Priest Incumbent of St. Peter’s.

Two Milestones for the Church on P.E.I.

1887 was a significant year for Anglicans in Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia due to two events of historic note. The first was the sad occasion of the passing away of Bishop Hibbert Binney, having served Prince Edward Island and the Diocese of Nova Scotia faithfully for the previous thirty-six years A special synod was summoned to elect his successor. It is interesting to noze that the first choice of the delegates for a new Bishop was the Reverend J .C. Edgehill, a Tractarian who was involved with an Anglo-Catholic Chumh paper. Although he declined the position, his popularity as first choice for srccessor clearly illustrated a general wide—spread acceptance by both clergy and the laity throughout Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island of the Cathdic movement within the Anglican Church.

Bishop Binney lefi a number of lasting marks upon his Diocese which still Sirvive today. The first was the constitution and voting practices of the Dioceéan Synod, with its standing Episcopal veto. Second, was the energy he expenied towards erection of a new Cathedral in Halifax. This became the inspirition which motivated many individuals to see the project through to completion. Third, he raised the level of churchmanship in the Diocese to the point vhere Anglicans began to feel a sense of responsibility for the support of ther church, financially as well as by numerical attendance at services. Bishop, Binney also encouraged the fostering and growth of a heightened

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