Scope and Contents Typed letter from N.D. Pendleton to Rev. Robert J. Tilson in London, England. Pendleton has enjoyed reading Tilson’s letter of April 11th. He is pleased that Tilson has agreed to act as president and celebrant at the upcoming British Assembly. He comments, “I cannot but feel that the Lord will prosper your meetings, for we take it as of His will that the General Church must continue to serve the great spiritual use for which the Academy was founded, a use which is central to the welfare of...

Scope and Contents Typed letter from N.D. Pendleton to Rev. Robert J. Tilson in London, England. Pendleton presented Tilson’s appeal for funding to the Academy Board of Directors, and they have awarded Tilson a gift of $450 from the Glanville Bequest. Pendleton leaves it to Tilson and his pastoral council to decide how best to use the gift. Pendleton thanks Tilson for sending news of the Church in England following the Assembly and Dedication. Pendleton hopes the new church building in Colchester will...

Scope and Contents Typed letter from N.D. Pendleton to Rev. Robert J. Tilson in London, England. Pendleton discusses Mr. Gyllenhaal’s recent resignation as Pastor of the Peckham Rye society. For the good of the General Church, Pendleton advised Gyllenhaal to leave Peckham Rye and move to Colchester. Pendleton will not officially disband the Peckham Rye society as he wants to leave its members in spiritual freedom, but he hopes they will decide to join either the Colchester or Burton Road societies. He writes...

Scope and Contents Typed letter from N.D. Pendleton to Rev. Robert J. Tilson in London, England. Pendleton has been traveling nearly continuously for the last two months, and, as a result, his correspondence has fallen behind. He has just returned home from a series of meetings hosted in Pittsburgh by the Sons of the Academy. He has an unanswered letter from Gyllenhaal on his desk in which Gyllenhaal describes the final meeting of the Peckham Rye society and inquires about the upcoming British Assembly in...

Scope and Contents Typed letter from N.D. Pendleton to Rev. Robert J. Tilson in London, England. Pendleton has just retuned from the Kitchener Assembly where the main theme of the papers presented was the Academy’s 50-year jubilee. Pendleton believes this twelfth assembly was one of the greatest they have ever had, in terms of both attendance and the spirit of love for the Church. Pendleton reflects on the state of the Academy as “a life saving movement within the Church” and warns against the adverse forces...

Scope and Contents Typed letter from N.D. Pendleton to Rev. Robert J. Tilson in London, England. At the General Assembly in Kitchener, there was pressure to choose either Toronto or Bryn Athyn as the next assembly location. Pendleton delayed the decision by pointing out that the usual custom is for a society to put forth an invitation which is considered by the Bishop and the Joint Council. Pendleton asks Tilson what he thinks of the idea of hosting the next general assembly in London. Pendleton has been...

Scope and Contents Typed letter from N.D. Pendleton to Rev. Robert J. Tilson in London, England. For more than a year, Pendleton has been in confidential correspondence with former Conference minister G. A. Sexton on the Isle of Jersey. Due to his developing doctrinal view that the Writings are a “Divine Message,” Sexton and his congregation have been financially cut off by Conference and are now appealing to the General Church for help. Pendleton has just written to Sexton that the General Church is not able...

Scope and Contents Typed letter from N.D. Pendleton to Rev. Robert J. Tilson in London, England. In Bryn Athyn, the mid-year meetings have successfully concluded. One of the topics discussed during these meetings was Pendleton’s desire to ordain Tilson into the third degree of the priesthood at the next General Assembly. Aside from several questions as to how this would affect the order and organization of the General Church, all of Pendleton’s advisors responded affirmatively to this idea. Pendleton goes on...

Scope and Contents Typed letter from N.D. Pendleton to Rev. Robert J. Tilson in London, England. Pendleton has received Tilson’s letters of May 31st, June 6th, and June 14th. He is especially interested in the enclosures relating to Tilson’s visit with Mr. Sexton on the Isle of Jersey. Pendleton thanks Tilson for his personal impression of Sexton. Commenting on this impression, he writes, “The only difficulty I see is his psychic tendency, which however seems to be accompanied by the virtues of innocence and...

Scope and Contents Typed letter from N.D. Pendleton to Rev. Robert J. Tilson in London, England. Mr. DeCharms has written to Tilson regarding arrangements for the 1928 London General Assembly, however they cannot take any further steps until they know for sure that they will be able to use the hall (Victora Hall?) whenever desired during the Assembly period. Pendleton received Tilson’s letter of November 30th with an enclosed letter from Mr. Sexton. Pendleton comments on Sexton’s letter, “He is not yet clear...