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Rev. WILLIAM M. GROTON, S.T.D., Dean,
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Rev. A. D. HEFFERN, D.D.,

New Testament Literature and
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Rev. LUCIEN M. ROBINSON, S.T.D.,
Liturgics, Church Polity and Canon
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Rev. JAMES ALAN MONTGOMERY, Ph.D.,
S.T.D., Old Testament Literature and
Languages.

Rev. GEORGE C. FOLEY, D.D..

Homiletics and Pastoral Care.

Rev. J CULLEN AYER, Jr., Ph.D.,
Ecclesiastical History.

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VOL. LXXIV.

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No. 5

ARLY in the evening of April 21st Mr. George C. Thomas entered into Life Eternal. The message comes to the Church MisGeorge C. Thomas sions House after this form had been prepared for the press, so that only the bare announcement of the fact can be made at this time. To thousands of people in this land, as well as to all the missionary staff abroad, this news brings a keen sense of personal loss. But, deeply as that loss will be felt, the thought of the personal sorrow will be overshadowed by the recognition of the loss the Church has suffered.

Mr. Thomas had just passed his seventieth birthday. Born to a competence, he might have chosen to live a life of ease. He might have sought exclusively to satisfy his love of musiche was an accomplished organist-or his love of books and paintings he was a discriminating collector. But he recognized that no man, least of all a Christian man, has a right to claim a life of ease as his portion.

As a banker he was successful not only for himself but for others. Many men are owned by their money. Not so Mr. Thomas. He owned it. He was its master. He used it for the highest ends. Only a few people can begin to know the wide range of his helpfulness. While he was generally known as the Treasurer of

the Board of Missions and as a generous supporter of all enterprises for carrying the Gospel to people in need of its power, whether at home or abroad, he was always ready to give time, ability and money to further any good enterprise in the Church. But Mr. Thomas, as a devout Christian, was naturally a good citizen, so that his interests were not confined even to the Church's world-wide work.

Mr. Thomas not only gave himself to great causes. He had that faculty, all too rare in men whose lot is cast with large issues, of being genuinely interested in persons. A great host of people all over the world could tell of the most unsuspected kindnesses, received at his hands and given with such a quiet and friendly modesty that he who received the kindness seemed almost to be doing a favor to him who showed it.

Mr. Thomas died as he would have wished at his post. On April 18th, although not entirely well, he attended service at the Church of the Holy Apostles, Philadelphia, in order that he might personally attend to, and give his judgment as warden on a matter concerning the parish.

Every member of the Church who wishes to honor the memory of a great layman will do his best to further the work for which Mr. Thomas lived and died.