Trinity Episcopal Railroad Outreach - Mission of the Holy Redeemer

Several books about Lewis Carroll mention "Cakeless" written by John Howe Jenkins. Jenkins was "sent down" or expelled from Christ Church for writing the satiric play.

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entered St Johns, Cambridge at Michaelmas 1875

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"Ordination held by the Lord Bishop of Salisbury, in the Cathedral Church of Salisbury..."
src: Salisbury Guardian, December 22, 1880

62, Clergy House, St Anns Street
St Martin, Wiltshire

in London, England

"The Reverend J.H. Jenkins, M.A., has been tendered a call to the rectorship of the Trinity Episcopal Church, which he has accepted. There is thus a need supplied for the Episcopalians in our town, who have very much missed the services of a pastor during the last few months."

Marshall Newspaper, July 1884

Rev. J. Howe Jenkins, Rector, Trinity Church, Marshall.

Daughter, Sybil, born in Marshall. Recorded in Parish records.

Worship;: A sermon preached in Trinity Church, Marshall, Texas, on the feast of its dedication, Trinity Sunday, June 20 1886 [Unknown Binding]
J. Howe Jenkins (Author)

Rev. J. Howe Jenkins and family returned to town yesterday, after a month's recreation at Hynson's. We are pleased to see them much improved in health.

Marshall Newspaper, August 27, 1886

"The Council Sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. Jenkins, from St. John, xiii, 37, 38."
Minutes of the 39th Annual Diocesan Council

src: Special Council of the Diocese of Milwaukee (1888)

"On March 4, 1889, the President reported having instituted the Rev. J.H.Jenkins, on the Feast of the Purification of the B.V.M. into the Rectorship of St. Luke's Church, Whitewater, in conformity with the request of the Standing Committee."
src: record of the Forty-Third Annual Council of the Diocese of Milwaukee

note: Entry does not mention JHJ by name but this would have been during his time as rector.

Preached and confirmed seventeen (17) in the morning, and again preached in the evening, this at Whitewater. In that parish I noted, with pleasure, a simple and effective chapel, which by the ingenuity of the rector had been got at the very minimum of cost. A beautiful and convenient rectory has lately been built by the congregation, in which there is a large, rough, unplastered garret, extending over the whole house. A chapel and a guild room were greatly needed. So a staircase was built on the outside of the house, at the back, and a plain but decent altar, with proper hanging and adornments placed at the end of the "large upper room"," now furnished with a stove and chairs; and with a curtain wich can be drawn across the front of the altar, there is an apartment which serves admirably both for the Divine service and for the meetings of Guilds and other social uses growing out of the work of the parish, and the very rudeness of the timber over head and the floor beneath, brings up the thought of the Carpenter's shop at Nazareth. There, early on the morning after the Confirmation, I had the comfort of recieving the Holy Sacrament with the newly confirmed, and many others. And afterward drove nine miles into the country, and at a farm house in the township of Milton, confirmed seven, presented by the Rector of Whitewater.

records of the Forty-Third Annual Council of the Diocese of Milwaukee (June 1889)

Bishop of the Diocese of Milwaukee: "On the 28th day of September, 1889, it was my sad and solemn duty to degrade from the Holy Orders of Deacon and Priest in the Church of God, the Rev. John Howe Jenkins, sometime rector of St. Luke's, Whitewater [Wisconsin]. The act took place at the Cathedral and was formally witnessed by the Rev. Canons Ashley, Wright, and St. George, Priests.

Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris, France

The Community Of The Holy Name, Boston, Mass. (Founded 1884.)

Visitor—The Bishop of Massachusetts. Chaplain—The Rev. George J. Preecott. The Sisters have charge of the work and nursing among the poor in the Parish of the Good Shepherd, Boston, and render assistance in other Parishes, when desired. They have a summer home for the poor. The Sisters have also a school in Marshall, Texas, in connection with Trinity Church, the Rev. J. Howe Jenkins, Rector. Address the Chaplain or the Sister Superior of the Community, 218 Tremont St., Boston, Mass.

"...The establishing of Church schools. The unpleasant fact stares us in the face that we have no such schools in the Diocese. Why? The denominations and the Romanists have schools and so should we. They educate our children and thereby sap the very foundation fo the Church. Shall we continue to fold our hands and do nothing in this matter? It is a responsibility we cannot put aside so lightly."

Bishop Gregg, minutes of 37th Diocesan Council (1885-1886)

Easter 1887 - Sisters of the Community of the Holy Name will (D.V.) begin school & work in the parish in September next. May God stir generous hearts to help us that the work fail not! Sisters Katherine and Phoebe arrived September 1st.

"In September next, I shall open (D.V.) a parochial school under the management of Sisters of the Community of the Holy Name, Boston, Mass."
JHJ, Parochial Report, 38th Annual Council

The Sisters were called to Marshall primarily to help establish and teach in the Parish school.

From Parish Records

"Retreat at Sisterhood, celebration in oratory."

Trinity Church School opened on September 12th with 44 students, fifteen more to come in yet by October 1st. The two assistant teachers did not come with the sisters which makes the work fall very hard on them.

In the afternoon I visited the Parish school unde rth charge of the Sisters, Katharine and Phoebe, of the Community of the Holy Name, Boston, Mass. who came to devote themselves to this and other good work. These, with Alice, the remaingin member of th eCommunity have since been transferred to the Diocese of Texas, by the Bishop of Massachusetts. One of them will remove to Tyler to care for the sick in the railroad hospital there, and labor for the Church in other wokrs of mercy and love there, and others will be added. With the establishment of the Church Home at Tyler contemplated by the Rector, a noble band of holy women will be ready to enter upon that work. I rejoice in the inauguration of the work of the Sisterhood in the Diocese, which has proved so invaluable in more extended field of labor, and will prove invaluable, especially in our larger Parishes as an auxiliary which cannot be supplied in any other way. I am sure that many devoted daughters of the Church will gladly give themselves to this self-denying service, as a way may be opened to them, to prove shining lights amid the darkness, as it has been, and misery of the humble walks of Parochial life, and the dreary hutns of dissipation, disease, and death.

"In September [1887] the Sisters of the Holy Name arrived in the Parish and took charge of a parochial school in a rented house. The Rector paid the first four months' rent, and he and his wife have helped support it by music lessons. The Sisters have contributed generously. The Parish has not given one cent. The school is an admirable success, educationall, and is a most valuable work in the Parish. the value of the sisters' work is beyond all words."

JHJ, Parochial Report, minutes of the 39th Annual Diocesan Council

"December 17 - Visited the Parish school, [sic] and talked to the children."
src: minutes of Fortieth Annual Concil of the Diocese of Texas, Bishop's Log

Railroad
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Missions and Missionaries
"The interest excited of late in the holding of Missions at different points, due largely to the efforts of those men remarkably gifted in this line, who came from England during the past year, and labored so successfully, constitutes one of the most interesting and important developments of religious life and effort in the Church which has been witnessed in recent times."
Bishop Gregg, 37th Annual Diocesan Council (1885-1886)

December 10-11 - "Went to Marshall, and on that and the following day, visited the people of the Parish."
Records of the Thirty-Eighth Diocesan Council, Bishop's Log

"December 7 - Tyler - In afternoon, visited the railroad hospital with the sisters of the 'Holy Name' are doing faithful service."
src: minutes of the Fortieth Annual Council of the Diocese of Texas, Bishop's log