Jesse Halsey Chapel

20 October 1952

Cincinnati Enquirer

(4) Carl Zimmerman, artist, confers in his Loveland studio with John A. Riordan, right, Cincinnati manufacturer of stained glass, on a work-drawing of a window for the Jesse Halsey Chapel of the Seventh Presbyterian Church, Madison Road, Cincinnati.

PCUSA | Special Committee on Chaplains and Service Personnel

May 9, 1952

"What this orderly arrangement actually does . . ."

February 27, 1952; Christian Century

Letter from Robert Worth Frank to Jesse Halsey

May 1952 | McCormick Theological Seminary

Jessie Luther | April 1952

Afterword

From time to time, a reminiscent word has come to me across land or sea, and I have met face to face some old associates nearer home. But whether they are far or near, I feel that among all who have shared the experience of life in the Mission, and especially those who labored together in the early difficult years, a bond exists that will endure. To those now living who shared this experience and to the families of those who are now a memory, I send greetings.

from Jessie Luther at the Grenfell Mission, an annotated edition of a travel journal that Luther wrote from 1906 to 1910, edited by Ronald Rompkey (2001)

Open Prayer

BOOK NOTICES
Journal of Bible and Religion, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Apr., 1952), p. 144

Open Prayer. Compiled by JESSE HALSEY. Nashville
2, Tenn.: Abingdon-CokesburyP ress, 1951. $7.50.

This is a unique and useful aid to worship leadership.
It has been prepared, apparently, by a clergyman
for use in his own conduct of worship services,
but it contains a wide variety of material that can
be used effectively in churches, at religious conferences,
or anywhere else that inspiring materials
for devotional leadership are needed. The "kit" consists
of three kinds of material: a loose-leaf file for
worship material, the worship material itself, printed
on separate sheets of sturdy paper, and an imitation
leather folder into which the particular sheets of
printed aids may be placed for inconspicuous use in
the pulpit or on a table. The aids include calls to
worship, invocations, prayers of confession, assurances
assurances and prayers for pardon, affirmations of faith,
prayers of thanksgiving, collects and short prayers,
prayers of petition and intercession, pastoral prayers,
offertory prayers, prayers before and after
the sermon, benedictions, and prayers for dedications.
Authorship of aids to worship ranges from
Alcuyn to Thomas Wilson, exclusive of the Bible and
other book sources.

Jesse Halsey | McCormick

Jesse Halsey | Chalmer’s Place | 1952 | photo by Bill Colwell

Note Book: c1952

Reverend Jesse Halsey

c1952 | Chicago

A blizzard swept the Dakotas for a week; fuel at the Manse was gone. The babies could be wrapped and trundled; below zero outside and a lost freezing within. All odd and ends of packing boxes and barrels had fed the rapacious kitchen stove, then it was old chairs; at last the books. Which should be the first; which kept to the last? The preacher must decide. So the story goes . . . out of the experience he determined the relative value of his books.

This time it is the old preacher-teacher; he is “retiring.” Which go to the second hand store (at ten cents the volume?); which to discerning students; which to the junk man; and which absorb the thousand mile freight charge and justify shelf room in the new-old home where space is limited for a so-called “study” and lumber even in knotty seconds that would make shelves, is $150 per M!

Then; What will he do when they get there and he gets there and all get “settled” if and when? Will he keep up and look ahead with the current magazines? When he has digested halfway Life and Time and The Atlantic and The New York Times (Daily AND Sunday) what time will there be left to read? (Not to say study or write.) Old sermons for an occasional Sunday when a brother is sick? He has no barrel, so maybe a new one (Query: Can a man make a new one when he is old?) At any rate he’ll try; it may be on Ruth and he will need Hastings to look up “Moab”—and other things, so Hastings must go with him; five volumes plus X and the Gospels. The other two volume set on the N.T. has gone to a former assistant.

(Old Hastings what a man he was—compiling, editing the Expository Time. Yes, those old bound copies they must go through he knows right well they will never be looked at. And that shelf full of old Hibbert Journals, they are light weight paper—but heavy otherwise and represent a young preacher’s ambition to keep up with the world of thought though on an isolated mission field. They always came late; mail in winter reaches Labrador once a month at best; no radios then and no telegraph; the Titanic had been sunk a month before we heard of it; then it came by grapevine.)

We pause to glance through one—Josiah Royce, L.P.? Jacks; Galsworthy Bacon of Yale on a Century of N.T. Criticism, and Jas Moffat in a review of current theological books. These and others including Mr. Balfour and Principal Carpenter. Twenty or thirty old Hibberts? Junk man; old paper, or future use???